Timeline for Finding an ellipse tangent to a circle when its center and semi-minor axis are given

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Jun 16, 2020 at 9:23	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
May 31, 2017 at 18:22	history	edited	LCarvalho	CC BY-SA 3.0	edited body
May 31, 2017 at 18:21	history	rollback	LCarvalho		Rollback to Revision 7
May 31, 2017 at 18:20	history	edited	LCarvalho	CC BY-SA 3.0	edited body
May 31, 2017 at 1:32	history	edited	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0	Cleaned kruff out of code
May 31, 2017 at 1:23	history	edited	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 10 characters in body
May 31, 2017 at 0:59	vote	accept	LCarvalho
May 31, 2017 at 0:19	history	edited	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added calculation of angles
May 31, 2017 at 0:05	history	edited	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added calculation of angles
May 30, 2017 at 22:27	history	edited	LCarvalho	CC BY-SA 3.0	edited body
May 30, 2017 at 21:38	comment	added	LCarvalho		That's exactly what I'll do. Thanks.
May 30, 2017 at 21:12	comment	added	m_goldberg		@LCarvalho. Since you know the ellipse center `{0, 15}` and my answer gives the `x` values of the tangents, you can solve for the `y` values from the equation of the circle. With those three points, finding the angles is not hard.
May 30, 2017 at 21:06	comment	added	LCarvalho		Now I just need to find $\theta_ 1$ and $\theta_ 2$
May 30, 2017 at 18:44	history	undeleted	m_goldberg
May 30, 2017 at 18:44	history	edited	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0	Solved the edited version of the question
May 30, 2017 at 16:32	history	deleted	m_goldberg		via Vote
May 30, 2017 at 16:30	history	answered	m_goldberg	CC BY-SA 3.0