Triangle with circumcircle has tangents and at and respectively.
Let the intersection points of the three tangents be Also, let the point where and intersect be and let and
If and is defined as what is
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I used barycentric coordinates. We get E = ( a 2 : − b 2 : c 2 ) , Q = ( a 2 : 0 : − c 2 ) . Then E Q has equation b 2 c 2 x + 2 a 2 c 2 y + a 2 b 2 z = 0 . Intersecting this with the line x = 0 , we get S = ( 0 : − b 2 : 2 c 2 ) . We also get T = ( 0 : − b 2 : c 2 ) . We then normalize S and T , and proceed to obtain S T = ( 0 , c 2 − b 2 b 2 − 2 c 2 − b 2 b 2 , 2 c 2 − b 2 2 c 2 − c 2 − b 2 c 2 ) . We then apply the distance formula for displacement vector S T . This gives ∣ S T ∣ 2 = − a 2 b 4 c 4 ( c 2 − b 2 1 − 2 c 2 − b 2 1 ) ( 2 c 2 − b 2 2 − c 2 − b 2 1 ) = a 2 b 4 c 4 ( ( c 2 − b 2 ) ( 2 c 2 − b 2 ) 1 ) 2 ⟹ ∣ B C ∣ ∣ S T ∣ = b 2 c 2 ( ( c 2 − b 2 ) ( 2 c 2 − b 2 ) 1 ) . Substituting b = 2 c gives the desired value is ( − 3 c 2 ) ( − 2 c 2 ) 4 c 4 = 3 2 , so the answer is 3 0 0 ⋅ 3 2 or 2 0 0 . Let me know if there is any error.