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Thanks. Unfortunately, it seems that the solution is not general enough. For example. `arctan(sin(2,hold=True)/cos(2,hold=True)).trigreduce()` gives an error AttributeError: 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression' object has no attribute 'trigreduce' instead of returning 2.

Thanks. Trying to follow your first suggestion, do you know a way to simplify further iterations? Since `f(f(f(f(x)))` results in `e^(16/5*I*pi)` and not, say, `e^(6/5*I*pi)`.

I'm teaching a course on dynamical systems based on the book by Devaney. Today I tried to show the map $f(\theta)=2\theta$ on the circle using Sage, where $\theta$ is given in radians. I could not find functions already defined to perform addition in $\mathbb{R}$ modulo $2\pi$, so I tried to devise my own. I stumbled upon this problem:

atan(sin(1/5*pi)/cos(1/5*pi))

produces

arctan(4*sin(1/5*pi)/(sqrt(5) + 1)).

Is there a way to obtain 1/5*pi?

(By the way, _.simplify() does nothing in this case.)

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Sorry, here with Sage 4.7.1 and Ubuntu 10.04: os.system('mplayer /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/phone-incoming-call.ogg') gives