Timeline for How to Minimize $PC + \frac{1}{2}PA$ for a Point on a Circle Geometrically?

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May 26 at 20:35	answer	added	Cesareo		timeline score: 1
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May 24 at 17:53	comment	added	Quadrics		Parametrizing the point $P$ as $P = (5 + 2 \cos t , 2 \sin t) $, and expressing the required distance in terms of $t$, then directly differentiating that, and finding the critical points, I found that the minimum is $\sqrt{41}= 6.40312423$, and it occurs at $ t = 2.64664 \text{ radian } = 151.6413^\circ $
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