Three discs are mutually tangent among themselves and with an enclosing circle of radius 18. The blue circle has radius 9. What it the common value of the radius of the gray discs?
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The gray radii area 8.
Three discs are mutually tangent among themselves and with an enclosing circle of radius 18. The blue circle has radius 9. What it the common value of the radius of the gray discs? https://t.co/LBBuFAAZIO By @MarshallWBuck pic.twitter.com/tCWeDT5Ak6
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It is somewhat of a mystery to me why you can only fit one extra radii 9 circle, but you can fit two whole radii 8 circles. Are there other surprises of this sort?