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Thanks, this is interesting. Also I just noticed an error in my second diagram when I renamed my variables: Θty should beΘtx everywhere except in the cutout triangle, where it's correctly labeled. I'm pretty sure the calculations themselves are still correct. I'll update the image. Never mind...

I can't tell if this is just a coincidence of the values I chose, but the distance from the x-axis to the circle's center (Dy) worked out to be equal to the distance from the origin to the tangent line's intersection (T). Weird.

Solved. The help is appreciated.

This question occurred to me a few days ago and it's been bugging me ever since. Consider a circle in the coordinate plane with center P(x,y) and radius R, where R < D, D being the distance from the origin to the circle's center. There are two lines tangent to the circle (T1 and T2) that pass...