Michel Bataille,
On the extrema of some distance ratios,
Forum Geometricorum, 18 (2018)
57--62.
Abstract. In the plane, given a line ℒ and two distinct points A, B with B
not on ℒ, we use inversion to study the extremal values of the ratio MA/MB
when M varies on ℒ . The method also holds when
an arbitrary curve C is
substituted for ℒ , and we dwell upon the case
when C is a
circle.
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