We define a carousel to be a (unordered) set of four pairwise distinct real numbers \(\{t_1,t_2,t_3,t_4\},\) all strictly between \(0\) and \(2\pi ,\) such that in some order they satisfy the following system of equations
\[ \begin{cases} \cos (2t_1) = 4\cos t_1 \cos t_2\\ \cos (2t_2) = 4\cos t_2 \cos t_3\\ \cos (2t_3) = 4\cos t_3 \cos t_4\\ \cos (2t_4) = 4\cos t_4 \cos t_1. \end{cases}\]
How many carousels are there?
Details and assumptions
A set is unordered. If a set satisfies the above system for several different orderings, it is only counted once.
A set of values is called pairwise distinct if no two of them are equal. For example, the set \( \{1, 2, 2\} \) is not pairwise distinct, because the last two values are the same.
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