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An even more straightforward proof of Descartes's circle theorem

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Abstract

How was this proof overlooked for 181 years? We give a simple proof of Descartes's circle theorem using Cayley-Menger determinants.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05539,
  title  = {An even more straightforward proof of Descartes's circle theorem},
  author = {Alden Bradford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05539},
  year   = {2022}
}