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This follows directly from the double angle identity for cosine and the Pythagorean identity:


\cos2\theta=\cos^2\theta-\sin^2\theta=\begin{cases}2\cos^2\theta-1\\1-2\sin^2\theta\end{cases}

So we have


(1-2\sin^2\theta)/(2\cos^2\theta-1)=(\cos2\theta)/(\cos2\theta)=1

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