Problem:
Points and lie on circle with center . Let be a point inside . Suppose that , , , and . Points and are on such that and triangles and are similar with the same orientation. Compute .
Problem:
Points and lie on circle with center . Let be a point inside . Suppose that , , , and . Points and are on such that and triangles and are similar with the same orientation. Compute .
Solution:
Consider a rotation about by followed by a homothety with ratio that sends to . This sends to with radius of the radius of and center . Since is the image of under this rotation, we know lies on both circles; the same argument shows must lie on both circles. Thus, is the reflection of over . In particular, this means that , where is the reflection of over .
Let be the midpoint of . Note that because , we also have , as they are both isosceles and . This implies that . Thus, we know that . It remains to compute ; noting that the distance between and the foot from to is , and that the altitude of has length , we get that the distance from to is
by the Pythagorean theorem, which means that .
Solution:

Let be the midpoint of . We will find first.
Let the internal bisector of intersect at . From Ptolemy, . Let be the foot of altitude from to . Observe that is the reflection of across . By the area of , we have . Therefore,
By the spiral similarity , we have that and Therefore, where is the midpoint of . Thus, and