Mnemonics in trigonometry

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In trigonometry, it is common to use mnemonics to help remember trigonometric identities and the relationships between the various trigonometric functions.

1 SOH-CAH-TOA
- 1.1 Phrases
- 1.2 Fractional Form
2 All Students Take Calculus
3 Sines and cosines of special angles
4 Hexagon chart
5 See also

1 SOH-CAH-TOA

The sine, cosine, and tangent ratios in a right triangle can be remembered by representing them as strings of letters, for instance SOH-CAH-TOA in English:

Sine = Opposite ÷ Hypotenuse
Cosine = Adjacent ÷ Hypotenuse
Tangent = Opposite ÷ Adjacent
One way to remember the letters is to sound them out phonetically (i.e. /ˌsoʊkəˈtoʊə/ SOH-kə-TOH-ə, similar to Krakatoa).[1]

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Image mnemonic to help remember the ratios of sides of a right triangle

1.1 Phrases

Another method is to expand the letters into a sentence, such as “Some Old Horses Chew Apples Happily Throughout Old Age”, “Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Tripping On Acid”, or “Studying Our Homework Can Always Help To Obtain Achievement”. The order may be switched, as in “Tommy On A Ship Of His Caught A Herring” (tangent, sine, cosine) or “The Old Army Colonel And His Son Often Hiccup” (tangent, cosine, sine) or “Come And Have Some Oranges Help To Overcome Amnesia” (cosine, sine, tangent).[2][3] Communities in Chinese circles may choose to remember it as TOA-CAH-SOH, which also means ‘big-footed woman’ (Chinese: 大腳嫂; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-kha-só) in Hokkien.

An alternate way to remember the letters for Sin, Cos, and Tan is to memorize the nonsense syllables Oh, Ah, Oh-Ah (i.e. /oʊ ə ˈoʊ.ə/) for O/H, A/H, O/A.[4] Longer mnemonics for these letters include “Oscar Has A Hold On Angie” and “Oscar Had A Heap of Apples.”[2]

1.2 Fractional Form

Another way to remember all the reciprocal trigonometric function, including Cosecant, Secant and Cotangent, is use the following “fraction”:

{\displaystyle {\frac {OAO}{HHA}}}{\displaystyle {\frac {OAO}{HHA}}}
Remember the phrase this way - OAOHHA. Starting left to right, then top to bottom, Sine = O/H, Cosine = A/H and Tangent = O/A. To get the reciprocals, then go from bottom up - Cosecant = H/O, etc.[citation needed]