Sharp Cusa–Huygens and related inequalities

József Sándor
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 1310–5132
Volume 19, 2013, Number 1, Pages 50–54
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József Sándor
Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Mathematics
Str. Kogălniceanu nr. 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

We determine the best positive constants a and b such that
\left(\ds\f{\cos x+2}{3}\right)^a<\ds\f{\sin x}{x}<\left(\ds\f{\cos x+2}{3}\right)^b.
Similar sharp inequalities are also considered.

Keywords

  • Inequalities
  • Trigonometric functions
  • Hyperbolic functions
  • Monotonicity theorems

AMS Classification

  • 26D05
  • 26D07
  • 26D99

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  4. Sándor, J., Two sharp inequalities for trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, ath. Ineq. Appl., to appear

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Sándor, J. (2013). Sharp Cusa–Huygens and related inequalities. Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 19(1), 50-54.

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