Consider an ellipse whose semi-axes have lengths
and
, where
. A chord in this ellipse makes
acute
angles
and
with the ellipse. Let
denote the minimum possible value of
, for a given value of
. Evaluate
as a function of
.
Now, take the ratio of the semi-axes of the ellipse to be (the golden ratio), and submit your answer as the value of .
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