Mixing Up Sine and Cosine
Someone measures a small shrub as 2 miles tall; a friend suspects they mixed up sine and cosine.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-01-01-mixing-up-sine-and-cosine/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Figure holding a clinometer] "By my measurements that shrub is 2 miles tall." [Friend] "I think you may be mixing up sine and cosine…" [a small shrub]