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seems that you just make it up by reverse engineering. as we never know how can you make up all those cosine formula for a, b , c ,d and let e and f work separately. better to study the real geometry and their roots relationship. Though it seems you have find solution by your approach but the initial thinking is not convincing. Is it really the original solution from Gauss, can you provide more information or the related resource for this approach
For the bijection f: (0,1) --> [0,1]... Could I just switch the domain and range? So f(1/2)=0 and f(1/4)=1 to account for the endpoints. Then f(x)=1/2^n (n=1,2,...) if x=1/2^(n+2) and f(x)=x otherwise.
This is wrong. What is your reasoning for ignoring the higher powers? If you put x=0.9 you will find that -ln(1-x) > xe^x so exactly how small does x have to be for your theory to work and why?