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Say I have an object, whose actual size is 10 units in diameter, and it is 100 units away.

I can find the angular diameter as such: $2\arctan(5/100) = 5.725\ $ radians.

Can I use this angular diameter to find the apparent linear size (that is, the size it appears to be to my eye) in generic units at any given distance?

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