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This was just added, and I have to admit I don't really understand it:
:An alternative is to remember that sin starts at 0 and grows to 1, cos starts at 1 and shrinks to 0, and tan starts at 0 and grows to +∞. That avoids the requirement of remembering what the the adjacent, opposite and hypotenuse are called. For word-related mnemonics for remembering what the functions do, for sin one could imagine a holy spring in equilibrium (the total forces at 0), and one sins by punching the holy spring so it moves away, and the forces on it approach 1. For cos (pronouncing cos as caus) one could imagine a spring which starts off not moving, and causes a vibration, so the total forces on the spring start off as 1, going down to 0 as the spring relaxes. For tan, one could imagine when someone is having a sun tan, the photons start at the sun, and their distance from the sun practically increases
This might work for the author, but does it make sense to anyone else? What's a "holy spring" anyway? [[User:Moink|moink]] 17:52, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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