import math def oclock(time): radians = time * math.pi / 6 return math.sin(radians),math.cos(radians) # example: P = oclock(2) print P # output: (0.8660254037844386, 0.5000000000000001) # math people write ^ for exponentiation # in python, ^ is xor, and ** is exponentiation print P[0]**2 + P[1]**2 == 1 # output: True