It does!
e^z, defined as the series \sum_{n = 0}^\infty z^n/n!, can only be a function of a dimensionless number z.
sin(z) and cos(z), defined as power series, technically also work this way. And that's OK, because angles are dimensionless: a radian is just C/(2πr), where C is the circumference of a circle of radius r. But it is sometimes convenient to pick your favorite number of radians, like π/180 of them, and call that a degree, and then to say that sin(x degrees) is the same as sin(xπ/180 radians).
With this convention, where the left-hand side of e^(ix) = sin(x) + icos(x) is a function of a dimensionless variable, and the right-hand side can be viewed as a function of a dimensioned argument only in the sense written above, it really is the case that the equation written is true, but the equation e^(ix) = sin(x degrees) + icos(x degrees) is false.
(On the other hand, you could make the case that e^(ix) is really a function of an angle, where its value is the complex number that lies on the unit circle at that angle. Then you do recover a "dimensioned" version of e^(ix) = sin(x) + i*cos(x) that's valid even if you measure angles in degrees.)
(iπx/180)
e = cosd x + i sind x
ix
π/180
-> e = cosd x + i sind x
π/180
-> let f = e
ix
f = cosd x + i sind x
Probem is, f doesn't have nice properties like: d x x
- f /= f
dx
There is something uniquely special about the unit circle, and about using the unscaled distance around the unit circle as the measure of the angle. |[cos(x+δ) + i sin(x+δ)] - [cos(x) + i sin(x)]| = δ
This is also related to how we can estimate sin(x) = x for small values next to zero, if using radians.In radians, the derivative sin'(x) is cos(x), and cos'(x) is -sin(x). Derviation just shifts the waveform left by ninety degrees. In units other than radians, we get wacky constant terms that change at each step.
That's related to how e^x is its own derivative.