“During the making of the pattern, I needed to find angles and the length a strip. Luckily, I had taken high school trigonometry and remembered the acronym SOH-CAH-TOA (SineOppositeHypotenuse-CosineAdjacentHypotenuse-TangentOppositeAdjacent) to work out the necessary information. After in depth conversation and lots of laughs around the geekiness, my sewing friends and I decided in the name.