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Extangent


Extangent

Given triangle DeltaABC, there are four lines simultaneously tangent to the B- and C-excircles (with centers J_B and J_C, respectively). Of these, three correspond to the sidelines of the triangle, and the fourth is known as the A-extangent (Kimberling 1998, p. 162), illustrated above.

The extangents intersect one another pairwise, and their points of intersection form the so-called extangents triangle.


See also

Circle-Circle Tangents, Extangents Circle, Extangents Triangle, Intangent

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References

Kimberling, C. "Triangle Centers and Central Triangles." Congr. Numer. 129, 1-295, 1998.

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

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