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Expand the argument of
Since sine is a periodic function, adding or subtracting multiples of can not change the result, thus the first few terms on the right hand side can be dropped (those first few where is a whole number thus n is greater or equal to z), and one is left with
Since for small (Taylor expansion of sine), the limit is
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