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I checked out de moivre's theorem on Wikipedia and I don't think I buy the above.
This is Euler's Formula, from which it is trivial (as above) to extract Euler's identity.
De Moivre's is not to do with complex exponents and does not lead to a trivial derivation of the identity at all.
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