Trigonometry
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“sine, cosine, and how to run TRAIN!.”
~ Gary Busey on learning Trigonometry
“Trigonometry, that's the legal waterboarding right?”
~ George Bush on Speech on the practices at Guantanamo Bay
“If you jack off at 30 degrees you only get half the sin!.”
~ The Pope on uses of trigonometry
Trigonometry has many applications in fields ranging from carpentry to underwater basket weaving, and can generally be applied to pairs of parallel lines which intersect, as discovered by Euclid.
There are a few possible etymologies for the word "trigonometry". One derivation reasons that the original Greek word tri means four, and gonos means arc, so five arcs are involved in all trigonometric equations, one of the arcs being a reserve one for in case one of the others goes missing.
Another derivation goes as follows: "Triga" is a sort of fish. "Nom" is French for "name," and Tree... well everyone knows what that is, so... Trigonometry is French fishes in trees.
Another school of thought holds that the name derives from the fact that it is so frustrating, it makes you want to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. I mean God, this stuff is totally impossible. Triggernometry may have also been derived from computer games, since it is the study of where the heck a bullet flies based on the θ and the ϕ when a noob fires a gun.
Some theorize that through Procto-Analysis, a most discussed branch of Exploration, one can channel trigonometrical knowledge into formulas, to greatly improve one's erection and ultimately aiding in getting laid. Multiple times. By multiple women. In multiple ways.
[edit] SOHCAHTOA
SOHCAHTOA is a neologism used by small minded/mentally challenged people to remember how to find the magnitude of the side of a right-angled triangle (as apposed to a wrong-angled triangle; this requires extensive use of hidden quotes from The Divine Comedy and a mushroom).
Other people just use an Electronic Calculator with an in-built scanner and 2500+ mathematical and physical preloaded formulas. Or they just do... somehow (please insert gasps of mystery here).
[edit] Here's Your Sine
You wanted trigonometry, you got trigonometry!
And here's some integral calculus just for the heck of it:
