SHOW THAT THE CIRCUMRADIUS R OF A TRIANGLE ABC EQUALS THE ARITHMETI...

1. Show that the circumradius R of a triangle ABC equals the arithmetic mean of the oriented

distances from its incenter I and three excenters I

a

; I

b

; I

c

to any tangent τ to its circumcircle. In

other words, if δ(P ) denotes the distance from a point P to τ ; then with appropripriate choices

of signs, we have

δ(I) ± δ(I

a

) ± δ(I

b

) ± δ(I

c

) = 4R.

Luis González