#Ellipse incribed inside a triangle and a unit circle.

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novel halo
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how should i continue from here

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novel halo
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i meant c = 1/4 btw

ionic vale
# novel halo how should i continue from here

i think if you know A = (1,0) you can let lines AB and AC (which are symmetrical) go through that point and you can figure out what slopes will make the line tangent to the ellipse by solving for x and you'll get a quadratic with a discriminant of exactly 0, meaning there is 1 solution, aka 1 point of intersection

novel halo
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i think i did some thing wrong

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the point i got isn't even touching the ellipse

ionic vale
novel halo
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ok i got the points now
(7/12,√15/12) (7/12,-√15/12) (-1/4,0)

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i wrote the equation wrong