{"id":3517,"date":"2009-10-05T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2013-02-15T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:06:55","slug":"how-to-remember-trigonometry-ratios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/how-to-remember-trigonometry-ratios-3517","title":{"rendered":"How to remember trigonometry ratios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tweeted the following (on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intmath\/\">Twitter<\/a>, of course):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Tip for remembering sin, cos and tan:<\/b> Some Old Hags Can't Always Hide Their Old Age (sin = Opp\/Hyp, cos = Adj\/Hyp, tan = Opp\/Adj)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There were several replies which I thought you may enjoy (some are a bit racey and not very politically correct - you've been warned):<\/p>\n<p><strong>From CardsChic:<\/strong> Oh Heck (sine) Another Hour (cos) Of Algebra (tan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From sumidiot:<\/strong> From one of my students: Can A Hooker Take Off A Set Of Handcuffs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>From wmcneary:<\/strong> Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Trippin' On Acid<\/p>\n<p><strong>From tea_robot:<\/strong> \"Saints On High Can Always Have Tea Or Alcohol\" is what I was taught!<\/p>\n<p><strong>From LunaticNeko:<\/strong> My Tip: Open a \"Book of Trigonometry Problems\" or something, then drill through from beginning to end. You'll remember it fast! ^ ^<\/p>\n<p><strong>From chris_1974:<\/strong> \"Sex On Highways Causes Awful Havoc To Our Automobiles\" is one a class once created!<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/how-to-remember-trigonometry-ratios-3517#comments\" id=\"comms\">18 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's more than one way to remember the sine, cosine and tangent ratios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}