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Let ABCDA B C D be a quadrilateral inscribed in a unit circle with center OO. Suppose that AOB=COD=135,BC=1\angle A O B=\angle C O D=135^{\circ}, B C=1. Let BB^{\prime} and CC^{\prime} be the reflections of AA across BOB O and COC O respectively. Let H1H_{1} and H2H_{2} be the orthocenters of ABCA B^{\prime} C^{\prime} and BCDB C D, respectively. If MM is the midpoint of OH1O H_{1}, and OO^{\prime} is the reflection of OO about the midpoint of MH2M H_{2}, compute OOO O^{\prime}.

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Solution

Put the diagram on the complex plane with OO at the origin and AA at 1. Let BB have coordinate bb and CC have coordinate cc. We obtain easily that BB^{\prime} is b2,Cb^{2}, C^{\prime} is c2c^{2}, and DD is bcb c. Therefore, H1H_{1} is 1+b2+c21+b^{2}+c^{2} and H2H_{2} is b+c+bcb+c+b c (we have used the fact that for triangles on the unit circle, their orthocenter is the sum of the vertices). Finally, we have that MM is 12(1+b2+c2)\frac{1}{2}\left(1+b^{2}+c^{2}\right), so the reflection of OO about the midpoint of MH2M H_{2} is 12(1+b2+c2+2b+2c+2bc)=12(b+c+1)2\frac{1}{2}\left(1+b^{2}+c^{2}+2 b+2 c+2 b c\right)=\frac{1}{2}(b+c+1)^{2}, so we just seek 12b+c+12\frac{1}{2}|b+c+1|^{2}. But we know that b=cis135b=\operatorname{cis} 135^{\circ} and c=cis195c=\operatorname{cis} 195^{\circ}, so we obtain that this value is 14(8632)\frac{1}{4}(8-\sqrt{6}-3 \sqrt{2}).

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