Why is it important to get the cosine of an angle theta instead of the angle itself in two unit vectors?

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I'm a bit confused about why is it important to get the cosine of an angle theta instead of the angle itself in two unit vectors? I mean, to get the cousine theta angle we need to dot product of the two unit vectors, but why the cosine theta angle and not the angle?

A · B = cos O(theta)

Thank you.