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Four Coins Problem


FourCoinsProblem

Given three coins of possibly different sizes which are arranged so that each is tangent to the other two, find the coin which is tangent to the other three coins. The solution is the inner Soddy circle, illustrated above.


See also

Apollonius Circle, Apollonius' Problem, Arbelos, Bend, Circumcircle, Coin, Descartes Circle Theorem, Hart's Theorem, Pappus Chain, Soddy Circles, Sphere Packing, Steiner Chain, Tangent Circles

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References

Oldknow, A. "The Euler-Gergonne-Soddy Triangle of a Triangle." Amer. Math. Monthly 103, 319-329, 1996.

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Four Coins Problem

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Four Coins Problem." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourCoinsProblem.html

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