Problems on Circles VI: Poncelet Transversals
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Given two nested circles, you can play the following game: choose a point on the outer circle , draw the tangent to the inner circle until it intersects and continue repeatedly drawing tangents to . You obtain a polygonal line inscribed in and circumscribed about called a Poncelet transverse.
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Contributed by: Jaime Rangel-Mondragon (March 2011)
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