hypercyclic polygons and saccheri quadrilaterals

The sketch shows a hypercyclic pentagon, with vertices A(1),..,A(5).
The hypercircle through the vertices is associated with the hyperbolic line XY.
For each i, C(i) is the perpendicular projection fro A(i) to XY.
Then we have saccheri quadrilaterals A(i)A(i+1)C(i+1)C(i), (i = 1..4)
and A(5)A(1)C(1)C(5). The sides A(i)C(i) each have hyperbolic length d,
the width of the hypercircle.

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