concyclic
In any geometry where a circle is defined, a collection
of points are said to be concyclic
if there is a circle that is incident
with all the points.
Remarks.Suppose all points being considered below lie in a Euclidean plane.
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Any two points are concyclic. In fact, there are infinitely many circles that are incident to both and . If , then the pencil of circles incident with and share the property that their centers are collinear
. It is easy to see that any point on the perpendicular bisector
of serves as the center of a unique circle in .
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Any three non-collinear points are concyclic to a unique circle . From the three points, take any two perpendicular bisectors, say of and . Then their intersection
is the center of , whose radius is .
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Four distinct points are concyclic iff .