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Sangaku Puzzle I Can't Solve

https://samjshah.com/2025/08/05/sangaku-puzzle-i-cant-solve/
21•speckx•3d ago

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shiandow•55m ago
I knew inversion must have had something to do with it. Seeing it spelled out like that makes it pretty clear.

Sending the point where all three outer circles meet to infinity you get two parallel lines (they only touch at infinity) and one orthogonal line since inversion preserves angles and it's clear that the two semicircles are orthogonal. Then you are left with two circles that meet all three lines and it becomes easy to figure out their exact position and radius.

Sadly that is where my knowledge of inversion stops, but if I had to I suppose I could reconstruct the equations from first principles.

jansan•39m ago
What is the green line in the large diagram? I am pretty sure it does not go through the touch point of the small circle and the large one with the center at bottom left. And the pink line seems to be wrong too. Don't they all (green, pink and light blue) have to go through the small circle's center?

If you know that the lines must go through the small circle's center, it becomes a fairly simple geometrical problem with three Pythagorean equations and three variables (x, y, r).

yorwba•12m ago
The green line is the x=y diagonal. My guess is that the author tried to eyeball the diagram by moving the points G, H, I around on their respective circles, but when the point I was close to the diagonal, it got snapped to this position, which means that the circle through the three points isn't exactly tangent to the other three circles.

It's basically the equivalent of a rough sketch on paper, not an exact construction.

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