  Understanding the complement of the coamoeba of a (reduced) A-discriminant is
one approach to studying the monodromy of solutions to the corresponding system
of A-hypergeometric differential equations. Nilsson and Passare described the
structure of the coamoeba and its complement (a zonotope) when the reduced
A-discriminant is a function of two variables. Their main result was that the
coamoeba and zonotope form a cycle which is equal to the fundamental cycle of
the torus, multiplied by the normalized volume of the set A of integer vectors.
That proof only worked in dimension two. Here, we use simple ideas from
topology to give a new proof of this result in dimension two, one which can be
generalized to all dimensions.
