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Hard proof concerning the periodicity of trigonometrical functions. Is that a challenge or just trivial

i want to know if exist or if you can develop or give me ideas of a proof to show that the least number for which sine is periodic is $2\pi$ $$\neg \{\exists n\in \mathbb{R} \wedge n < 2\pi: ...
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Primitive recursive functions and characteristic functions. Methods of proof- examples. Illumination.

I am puzzling over a sentence in an example in a textbook, showing that a function $f$, defined by cases, is primitive recursive. Let $E$ be the set of even natural numbers. The function $f$ defined ...
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Proofs whose length depends on the input

This may be a question from proof theory, but I'm not sure, since I don't know any proof theory. What I will be asking about is what happens, if the length of a proof isn't fixed: I'm going to present ...