Two sticks, of lengths and respectively, slide along the axes of a coordinate system such that one end of each stick slides along the -axis while the other end of each slides along the -axis. The four end points of the sticks always lie on a circle. The locus of the centre of this circle can be expressed as , where and are coprime positive integers. Find the value of .
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