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  2. Problem of Apollonius - Wikipedia

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    There are four such solution lines, which may be constructed from the external and internal homothetic centers of the two circles. Re-inversion in P and undoing the resizing transforms such a solution line into the desired solution circle of the original Apollonius problem. All eight general solutions can be obtained by shrinking and swelling ...

  3. Special cases of Apollonius' problem - Wikipedia

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    This general result has several special cases when the given circles are shrunk to points (zero radius) or expanded to straight lines (infinite radius). For example, the CCL problem has zero solutions if the two circles are on opposite sides of the line since, in that case, any solution circle would have to cross the given line non-tangentially ...

  4. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    If = + is the distance from c 1 to c 2 we can normalize by =, =, = to simplify equation (1), resulting in the following system of equations: + =, + =; solve these to get two solutions (k = ±1) for the two external tangent lines: = = + = (+) Geometrically this corresponds to computing the angle formed by the tangent lines and the line of ...

  5. Inverse trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    So for example, by using the equality ⁡ = ⁡, the equation ⁡ = can be transformed into ⁡ =, which allows for the solution to the equation ⁡ = (where :=) to be used; that solution being: = ⁡ +, which becomes: = ⁡ + where using the fact that () = and substituting := proves that another solution to ⁡ = is: = + ⁡ + +.

  6. Heun's method - Wikipedia

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    The solution is to make the slope greater by some amount. Heun's Method considers the tangent lines to the solution curve at both ends of the interval, one which overestimates, and one which underestimates the ideal vertical coordinates. A prediction line must be constructed based on the right end point tangent's slope alone, approximated using ...

  7. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Consider, for example, the one-parameter family of tangent lines to the parabola y = x 2. These are given by the generating family F(t,(x,y)) = t 2 – 2tx + y. The zero level set F(t 0,(x,y)) = 0 gives the equation of the tangent line to the parabola at the point (t 0,t 0 2).

  8. Law of tangents - Wikipedia

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    In trigonometry, the law of tangents or tangent rule [1] is a statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths of the opposing sides. In Figure 1, a , b , and c are the lengths of the three sides of the triangle, and α , β , and γ are the angles opposite those three respective sides.

  9. Descartes' theorem - Wikipedia

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    When four tangent circles described by equation (2) all have integer curvatures, the alternative fourth circle described by the second solution to the equation must also have an integer curvature. This is because both solutions differ from an integer by the square root of an integer, and so either solution can only be an integer if this square ...