Use this rule when the second bearing between the bow and the object is double the angle
of the first. For example, if the first bearing is 22° and the second is 44°, you can use this rule.
What it tells you is that the distance run between the two bearings will be equal to
the distance from the second observation point to the object.
This works because, as you can see in the figure at right, the triangle created when drawn out
is isoceles, meaning that two of the sides and two of the interior angles are the same. In a triangle, the sum of the three
interior angles will be 180°. If one angle is a, another is 180°-2a, and the last is b, simply solving the equation
180° = a + b + 180 - 2a will show that a = b, and therefore both angles are the same. Because both angles are the same,
the sides opposite them will be of equal length.
