Consider whose circumcircle and nine-point circle are orthogonal to each other.If are angles of , find the value of .
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Denote the circumcentre by O and the nine-point centre by N . Because the circumcircle and the nine-point circle are orthogonal to each other and have radii R and R / 2 respectively, we have
R 2 + ( 2 R ) 2 = O N 2
or 5 × R 2 = ( 2 × O N ) 2 = O H 2 = R 2 ( 1 − 8 c o s A c o s B c o s C ) , where H is the orthocentre of the triangle.
So 5 = 1 − 8 c o s A c o s B c o s C and therefore c o s A c o s B c o s C = 2 − 1