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Circles of Apollonius

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Apollonius' problem asks for the circle tangent to three given circles or lines. Finding a circle tangent to three circles is the most difficult form of this problem. The solution is obtained by solving three simultaneous equations,

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Contributed by: Vivian Feig (March 2008)
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