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Derivation

1. Initial program 30.6

   \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]

2. Initial simplification30.6

   \[\leadsto \frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
3. Using strategy rm

4. Applied flip--30.7

   \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]

5. Applied associate-/l/30.8

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}}\]

6. Simplified15.2

   \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]

7. Taylor expanded around -inf 15.2

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(\sin x\right)}^{2}}{{x}^{2} \cdot \left(\cos x + 1\right)}}\]

8. Simplified15.4

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\frac{x \cdot x}{\sin x}}}\]
9. Using strategy rm

10. Applied associate-/l*0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{\sin x}{x}}}}\]
11. Using strategy rm

12. Applied associate-/r/0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\color{blue}{\frac{x}{\sin x} \cdot x}}\]

13. Applied associate-/r*0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\frac{x}{\sin x}}}{x}}\]

14. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\frac{x}{\sin x}}}{x}\]

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  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
  (/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x)))