proplinergeek

Yeah your there............. everything in easy form for me ...................I'll leave it to you to enlighten the others

alan2525

We're still in the dark! Can you put us out of our misery now! :P

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Bluewavestudios

mmm sounds more like something Sylvester said in the Tweety Pie Cartoons, well it is very close !! Thufferin socatash !!!

Regards........Mark.

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Greyhead

The Old Aristocrat Sat on his chair at home........

As the answer hasn’t been supplied as yet by any of us oldies I thought I’d put the “young uns” out of their misery.

It’s a mnemonic (silent “m”) used in trigonometry for:

Tangent = opposite / adjacent

Sine = opposite / hypotenuse

Cosine = adjacent / hypotenuse

The one I used at school was TOA CAH SOH pronounced, “tow a car so”.

When I started work and had to remember things like the resistor colour codes the mnemonics were a little less politically correct!

Of course in these days of computers such things have been largely consigned to history; anyone remember spending hours working with log tables?

tag

UHHhhhhhh im'e more confused now

Greyhead

As I said in these days of computers, maths just isn’t what it was; and a good thing too in my opinion!

I have to admit I still find “trig” quite useful, but I’m a bit of a dinosaur, believe me if you don’t know what we’re talking about you don’t want to know!

proplinergeek

Yeah Guys its back to the days of tables rather than keyboards when propliners ruled the sky I believe that during the inter-war years 350 people worked in Vickers calculating office just doing sums. On another note hands up anyone who still has a slide rule and can remember how to use it ! Rich K

wonwinglo

This is a good time to remember the old 'Blue Peter' format and programme's,far better than the current content,here are a few of the model building items covered over the years,and John Knokes did a series on building and flying radio controllled aircraft as well ! Peter Purves built the Airfix Hawker Sea Hawk showing hints and tips week by week,the finest Lego models were shown,Meccano was covered as well,Woodason solid models were covered as well,then special programmes were devoted to things like a career in aviation or working in engineering,enless subjects for the young and not so young ! things seem to have changed with less real interesting programme content.
I once applied for the job of producing the 'Makes' the famous items that Blue Peter became synomous with sticky tape and all ! I did send in a few for consideration including a baking powder powered little tug and the well known cotton reel bobbin tanks,bet you remember them crawling around the classroom !
Anyway sorry to digress on the way that the old programmes were formulated and the original question here, but just wanted it to be recorded for posterity.
PS-John Knokes sailed around the world I believe after he left the programme,he was certainly thrown in at the deep end climbing chimneys etc ! a great genuine personality.

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alan2525

If you used that method to teach kids trig nowdays, you'd probably get a few answers like this to the Trigonometry question in the Maths GCSE...

"There woz like this old guy who was sitting in a chair if u no what I mean and like he had a cat or summink"

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Desert Rat Racer

Hey guys, I'm just under 60 and I don't even know wot the heck ya talking, so wot's the joke.