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Square Rotation (Posted on 2005-07-02)

You are provided with a circle, a triangle, and a square which each have the same length perimeter. If the circle is rotated, without slipping, around each of the other two, in which case will it rotate through the greatest number of degrees?

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In either case, the circle will rotate precisely 720 degrees.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2024-03-13 10:52:13

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