USA here, same acro. I still start off solving by writing it off and drawing slashes through O/H A/H O/A for reference.
Came to use trig functions quite frequently while playing video games, and that was a big surprise to me. Not to assume you've played it, but I've recently discovered that Stormworks is a programmer's game - you can write microcontroller code in LUA for your vehicle designs. And, wow, does it ever use my trig knowledge everywhere.
Realized the transponder beeps can be triangulated, tick being 1/60th of a sec and that's a distance estimate resolution of up to 5-10 km. And that's when cos and sin came back to be useful because you can do intersection of circles and figure out where to do a sea rescue more precisely. So video games, trig. Who would've thought?
Came to use trig functions quite frequently while playing video games, and that was a big surprise to me. Not to assume you've played it, but I've recently discovered that Stormworks is a programmer's game - you can write microcontroller code in LUA for your vehicle designs. And, wow, does it ever use my trig knowledge everywhere.
Realized the transponder beeps can be triangulated, tick being 1/60th of a sec and that's a distance estimate resolution of up to 5-10 km. And that's when cos and sin came back to be useful because you can do intersection of circles and figure out where to do a sea rescue more precisely. So video games, trig. Who would've thought?