Solution

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The Weiss zone law gives and , so a common direction is . Its physical vector is , while is parallel to . Their dot product therefore gives
Taking a Euclidean angle directly between the index triples would incorrectly treat the tetragonal axes as equal in length. Reversing the chosen common direction gives the supplementary oriented angle.

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