We consider circular annuli with Poncelet’s porism property. We prove two identities which imply Chapple’s, Steiner’s and other formulas. All porisms can be expressed in the form in which elliptic functions are not used.
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Waldemar Cieślak; Elżbieta Szczygielska. On Poncelet’s porism. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio A – Mathematica, Tome 54 (2010) . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_17951_a_2010_54_2_21-28/
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