Problem 473. old wine in a new bottle?

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 9 Mar 2012

test case 2 is incorrect. the given function will only return positive values, which means it is not equivalent to sin (and therefore new wine)

AMITAVA BISWAS on 9 Mar 2012

adding 'for positive inputs between 0.2 to 0.8'

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