Solution

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The two affine lines meet at . Translating their intersection to the origin, , , removes both constant terms and gives the homogeneous first-order differential equation
On a patch with , put . Then , and separation of variables gives
Thus one local real implicit form is
The arctangent branch must be continued on the chosen solution patch. More geometrically, set and take a continuous local argument ; then . This form extends through where the original slope is defined. The intersection itself is excluded because the original right-hand side is there, and points with do not define a finite derivative. No real constant- solution was lost, because has no real zero. Translating the intersection works precisely because the two affine linear forms then become homogeneous linear forms.

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