Efficiently constructing tangent circles

2017/04/27 by Baragar, Arthur, Kontorovich, Alex
#01A20 #51N2 #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #Metric Geometry (math.MG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.08747

Abstract

Our goal is to present, in what we believe is the most efficient way possible, a construction of four mutually tangent circles.

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