Formula relating the radii of a ring of circles.
https://scitechdaily.com/descartes-unfinished-mystery-mathematicians-solve-380-year-old-geometry-problem/
I recall learning about the ring lemma as a graduate student, but I didn’t realize that there wasn’t an explicit formula known relating the radii.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_lemma
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