[Math] Find the range of $f(x) = \sqrt{\log(\cos(\sin x))}$

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Find the range of the function
$$f(x)=\sqrt{\log(\cos(\sin(x))}.$$

What I did was:

$$\log(\cos(\sin(x))) \geq 0$$
Then
$$\log_e\cos(\sin(x)) \geq 0$$
The next step of the problem is
$$\cos(\sin(x)) \geq e^0$$
This is the part I didn’t understand. Please explain it to me.

Best Answer

Note that $\sqrt{\log(\cos(\sin(x)))}$ is defined if and only if $\cos(\sin(x))\geq 1$ otherwise we have the square root of a negative number. Now since the cosine function is upper bounded by $1$, $\cos(\sin(x))$ has to be $1$ (such equality holds for example when $x=0$). So what is the range of the given function?