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by mech422 1361 days ago
I'm a 50+ year old American, of british decent... I never managed to remember the 'american' mnemomic, but my dad taught me one the used to use in England around WWII: Percy has a bald head, poor boy

Perpendicular/hypotanuse = Sin

Base / Hypotanuse: CoSin

Perpendicular / Base: Tan

edit: try to fix the HN god awful formatting