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This article begs for a picture of a typical case. It might be difficult to make with something simple like xfig, since getting the circles positioned correctly is pretty delicate. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:28, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Two illustrations of interest appear in Ogilvy's Excursions in Geometry, on pages 52 and 53. The second is a typical Steiner chain of eight circles touching two non-concentric circles. The first is a case in which the condition fails and no Steiner chain exists. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'll try to put some images together over the weekend. I've been meaning to for Soddy's hexlet, and this would be an excellent dry run! :) Willow (talk) 00:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Orphan article?
Excluding redirects, discussion pages, pages that list new articles, pages that list "stubs", etc., only the following now link here:
- List of geometry topics
- Jakob Steiner
- List of mathematics articles (S)
- List of circle topics
Not a complete "orphan", but somewhat link-deficient, maybe? Michael Hardy (talk) 21:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I added a connection in both directions with Pappus chain. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I did likewise with Soddy's hexlet. Our little orphan is gradually being adopted ;) Willow (talk) 00:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)