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I am reading this quesiton and accepted answer.

Question is about proof.

$S = \sin{(a)} + \sin{(a+d)} + \cdots + \sin{(a+nd)}$

$S \times \sin\Bigl(\frac{d}{2}\Bigr) = \sin{(a)}\sin\Bigl(\frac{d}{2}\Bigr) + \sin{(a+d)}\cdot\sin\Bigl(\frac{d}{2}\Bigr) + \cdots + \sin{(a+nd)}\cdot\sin\Bigl(\frac{d}{2}\Bigr) $

After cancellation I get $S * \sin(\frac{d}{2})=\frac{1}{2}(\cos(a-\frac{d}{2})-\cos(a+\frac{d(2n+1)}{2}))$

So I need to prove that $\frac{1}{2}(\cos(a-\frac{d}{2})-\cos(a+\frac{d(2n+1)}{2}))$ = ${\sin(n \times \frac{d}{2})} \times \sin\biggl( \frac{2 a + (n-1)\cdot d}{2}\biggr)$

This is where I don't know how to prove

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