
That says:
"Find the angle whose cotangent is 
."
Draw an equilateral triangle with all three sides equal to 2.
Its angles are all 60°:
Cut it in half by drawing an altitude of length h, into two 
congruent right triangles. It cuts the bottom side in half, each 
half measures 1 each.
Eliminate the right half:
Calculate h by the Pythagorean theorem:
Write 
 instead of h:
Now return to the original problem:
"Find the angle whose cotangent is 
."
We know that 
.  Since the
numerator of 
 is 1 and the denominator is 
,
we see that 60° is the angle whose cotangent is 
.
In radians that's 

.
Edwin