Evaluation of some reciprocal trigonometric sums via partial fraction decomposition
Keywords:
partial fraction decomposition, reciprocal sum identities, trigonometric functions.Abstract
Recently, Melham computed some nite sums in which the denominator of the
summand includes products of `sine' or `cosine'. In this paper, generalizations of the sums,
which he studied in 2016, are presented, by allowing arbitrary factors in the denominator of
the summand. Note more than the elementary technique of partial fraction decomposition
method is used. Furthermore, some of the sums, which he studied in 2017, are treated in
the same style.
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