Ah! Now I see it! Thanks to all. Jim On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
For those unable to easily view Mike Speciner's postscript, here is his pic as a png file:
Let me know if the link does not work.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
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On 06-Apr-15 23:18, James Propp wrote:
Could someone draw a picture for me and post it somewhere on the web (or just email it to me)? I'm having trouble converting people's verbal descriptions into pictures.
Thanks,
Jim Propp
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Gareth McCaughan < gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com <javascript:;>
wrote: On 07/04/2015 00:11, Mike Speciner wrote:
Well, it actually is the same circumcircle if you have AB be common to
both triangles (ABC and ABC') if you have C and C' on opposite sides of chord AB.
Oh, neat. I hadn't thought of drawing it that way.
(This may reveal that I didn't read every message in this thread in detail and draw diagrams as I did so. Sorry.)
-- g
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