Wilfred Reyes, The Lucas circles and the Descartes formula,

Forum Geometricorum, 3 (2003) 95--100.

Abstract:   We determine the radii of the three circles each tangent to the circumcircle of a given triangle at a vertex, and mutually tangent to each other externally. The calculations are then reversed to give the radii of the two Soddy circles associated with three circles tangent to each other externally.

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