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Old November 18th, 2009, 11:10 PM
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Yeah, I just mean the angle DAE is the inverse tan of 1/20, in the case that DE = 5cm (a common real example of what it might measure in my situation), of course you don't need to include the fact that XB = 8cm, this just shows tan-1 of DAE is 8/160 rather than 5/100, i.e. the same thing. Of course specifying DE = 5cm is not a generic example!
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