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Product of perpendiculars from foci of an ellipse to any tangent?
For a given fixed ellipse, with a tangent line to any point on that ellipse, consider the perpendiculars from the two foci to that tangent. What can be said of the product of these two distances?
A messy analytic proof is not difficult, but can anyone find an elegant demonstration of the result?
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