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End-to-end Focal Chords in an Ellipse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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The relation between the eccentric and focal angles of P (Fig. 1) is

or, more compactly,

where

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1910