trigidentity.com

Tool · runs in your browser, nothing is sent to a server

Verify a trigonometric identity

Two sides, one question: is this an identity — true for everyangle — or is it only true for some? Type both sides and the tool samples angles, reporting the count it actually checked and the first angle where the claim breaks.

Type both sides, or paste a whole equation with “=” into the left box.

Shareable result: appears once both sides are filled in.

How it decides

  1. Parse both sides. Your writing style is normalised first: sin^2(x),sin²θ and (sin x)^2 all become the same tree, and the tool shows you what it understood.
  2. Sample 12 random angles as a quick screen. Any disagreement stops the run and is reported as a counterexample.
  3. If the screen passes, sample 800 angles and report the worst relative difference found (tolerance 1e-9).
  4. Points where either side is undefined — tan(90°), a zero denominator, √ of a negative — are skipped and counted out loud, never silently treated as agreement.

Numbers printed on this page

Same engine, run at build time — so you can compare what the tool says with what the pages claim:

Two claims checked by the same engine that runs the box above.
ClaimVerdictPoints tested
sin²x + cos²x = 1equal400
sin²x + cos²x = cos 2xunequal — at x = -8.5308 rad the sides are 1.0000 and -0.21541
cos(x/2) = √((1 + cos x)/2)conditional-equal on −180° < x < 180° — fails outside it, e.g. at x = 4.1748 rad: -0.4939 vs 0.4939400

What it does not do