two-circles

Two circles, four answers, two of them nowhere

A four-bar with its crank held at 52° is two circles: the coupler pin is 3.5 from the crank pin and 3 from the far ground pivot. Two quadratics in two unknowns, so Bézout's number is four — and the tracker finds two. The other two paths run off to infinity, and they do so for every pair of circles ever drawn: two circles meet the line at infinity in the same two points, and those are what the fourth and third answers are.

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