On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:30:18 -0400, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

On 07/01/2014 02:56 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
Nasty Math Problem of the Day...

http://www.analog-innovations.com/SED/MathNasty_2014_07_01.pdf

Any ideas?

...Jim Thompson

Move one of the arctans to the other side of the equation, take the
tangent of both sides using the formula for tan(a+b), and solve it
algebraically.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

The arctans are on the one side.

As I see it, applying TAN to both sides gives

TAN(THETA) = TAN(arctan1 + arctan2)

...Jim Thompson
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