Archimedes Circles

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Archimedes Circles
Draw the perpendicularline from the intersection of the two small semicircles in the arbelos. The two
circlesand tangent to this line, the large semicircle, and each of the two semicircles are then
congruent and known as Archimedes' circles.

For an arbelos with outer semicircle of unit radius and parameter , Archimedes' circles have radii
(1)
and centers
(2)
(3)
Circles that are constructed in a natural way using an arbelos and are congruent to Archimedes' circles
are known as Archimedean circles.