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cos

Produces a cosine function of the input.

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The operator can be placed on the canvas in two ways:

For example, connecting a ``time'' block to this function, and then to a graph, will produce a cosine wave. For further explanation regarding trigonemtric functions, see Wikipedia's page on trigonometric functions.