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Determination of the radii of the circles which touch three given circles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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Let the points A, B, C be the centres of three given circles, whose radii are a, b, c; and let d, e, f be the distances BC, CA, AB between the centres (Fig. 41). It is required to find the radii of the circles which touch the circles A, B, C.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1904

References

* Cf. Hutton's Math. Dict. pp. 129, 130, or Leslie's Geometry, 1811, pp. 434–437.

For Vieta's solution see Leybourn's Math. Quest., Vol. IV., pp. 262–264.

Cf. Chasles' Géométrie Supérieure, XII. éd., pp. 498–501.