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Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

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Associate Professor Daniel Mathews from Monash University’s School of Mathematics, along with PhD candidate Orion Zymaris, has identified the equation that governs “n-flowers”—the complex ...

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