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algebra senior

Problem

Given a function for which for all real what is the largest number of different values that can appear in the list ?
Solution
From the given information, we can derive that It follows that is periodic, whose period divides 352. This means that every value in the list must appear among the values The identity implies that every value in the list must appear among the values and the identity implies that every value in the list must appear among the values This implies that capture all the possible values of where is a positive integer.

Now, let where the cosine is evaluated in terms of degrees. Then and we can verify that and

Thus, the list can have at most different values.
Final answer
177