TouchCeLe1 Definition

# The expression whose vanishing guarantess that the symbolic
# circle C1 and symbolic Line L1 touch

# it plugs the equation of the Line into the equation of the circle and computes
#the discriminant

TouchCeLe1:=proc(C1,L1) local F:

F:=expand(subs(y=solve(L1,y),C1)):

numer(normal(4*coeff(F,x,2)*coeff(F,x,0)-coeff(F,x,1)^2)):

end:


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