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approaches to Apollonius circle problems

I've been looking for solutions to finding the set of circles tangent to two other circles. one circle can be inverted to a line, but two circles can be mapped to a line and a circle or equivalently ...
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Systems of conics

It seems well-known that the system of conics given by $\frac{x^2}{a^2}+\frac{y^2}{a^2-c^2}=1$ for $c>0$ fixed and $a \in (0,c)\cup(c,\infty)$ varying is orthogonal: whenever two of these curves ...
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