I'm talking about "old" style phones with the "Mickey Mouse" handsets that have the round mouthpieces And so the sine, cosine

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I'm talking about "old" style phones with the "Mickey Mouse" handsets that have the round mouthpieces

And so the sine, cosine, and tangent of 37 degrees are approximately 3/5, 4/5, and 3/4, respectively. This in turn means you can do easy calculations with these trigonometric values without needing a calculator. Because of all this, 37 degrees is a popular angle for use in physics tests.

From the Flamers' Bible, by Joe Talmadge, written in 1987, posted to rec.humor.funny Way Back When, and reappearing in rec.humor.funny.reruns in August 1997.

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