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(For the sake of intuition, 1/√0=0)

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[–] stevedice 1 points 3 days ago

I always found these mnemonics just as hard to remember as the actual values so I just draw an isosceles right triangle and an equilateral one. It gives you the values for 30, 45 and 60 degrees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

My trick for this was:

0  30  45  60  90 deg
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0  1   2   3   4

Sine function of the top equals half the square root of the bottom number. Cosine is just in reverse order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure I understand your mnemonic. It looks like you've got 1/sqrt(3) as one of your exact value for sine and cosine... but that surely isn't right.