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Find the coordinates of those points on the ellipse `x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 = 1`, tangents at which make equal angles with the axes. Also prove that the length of the perpendicular from the centre on either of these is `sqrt((1/2)(a^2+b^2)`

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