Let be a parabola touching the -axis at and at , respetively. Let and be the focus and the vertex of the parabola.
The slope of the axis of the parabola can be expressed as , where and are coprime positive integers.
The equation of the directrix is , where are coprime positive integers.
If , find the value of .
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