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Trigonometry Without a Word

Two arctangent identities, seen through a geometric proof without words.

Prove the following two equalities

\[\begin{aligned} \arctan(\frac 12) + \arctan(\frac 13) = \frac \pi 4\\ \arctan(1) + \arctan(2) + \arctan(3) = \pi. \end{aligned}\]
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A geometric diagram on a square grid showing the angles in the two arctangent identities.

A proof without words.