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Variations on a sangaku problem involving kissing spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2015

P. K. Aravind
P. K. Aravind*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, e-mail: paravind@wpi.edu

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 99 , Issue 546 , November 2015, pp. 504 - 515
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 2015

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