Giovanni Lucca, Circle chains inscribed in symmetrical lenses and integer sequences,
Forum Geometricorum, 16 (2016) 419--427.

Abstract. We derive the conditions for inscribing, inside a symmetrical lens, a chain of tangent circles having the property that the ratio between the largest circle radius and the radius of any other circle of the chain is an integer.

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