Let's say I have an imaginary line extending up 14 units from the origin and
another line at a right angle going out 15.65 units from the origin.

How do I calculate the angle of the line which connects those endpoints?

I thought I'd do A = 1/sin(a/c) where a is 14 and c is the hypotenuse (calc
w/pythag) but that comes out to about 88 degrees, which clearly isn't right.

Then I went into Visio and threw down two lines, connected them, and checked
to see what Visio reports -- it comes up with 41.8148 degrees, which sounded
fairly good.

But weirdly, when I try it in POV, it comes out just a tiny bit off, maybe
by a degree or so.

So who's right? POV or Visio? Why wouldn't this add up?

And what is the calc, anyway?
(Hey, I've been out of school for 20 years...)

Thanks-- j.

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