Meaning of Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid | Babel Free

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A mnemonic used to help people remember the different trigonometric functions: sine is opposite over hypotenuse; cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse; and tangent is opposite over adjacent.

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“Another high school teacher told me that he uses a similar acrostic, but his is as follows: Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid.”

“"It's easier with a mnemonic," Molly says. "Like… Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid—"”

“[…] I thought my mastery of sines, cosines, and tangents—Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid—might elevate me to another level of intellectual superiority in my high school; […]”

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