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Archimedean spiral: Three 360° turnings of one arm of an Archimedean spiral
 
 
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In the third century B.C., Archimedes of Syracuse created a special spiral-shaped curve by pulling the legs of a compass apart while turning it. By performing both actions at a steady rate, he found that the resulting spiral moved outward by the same...
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An Archimedean spiral (also arithmetic spiral), is a spiral named after the 3rd-century-BC Greek mathematician Archimedes; it is the locus of points corresponding to the locations over time of a point moving away from a fixed point with a constant speed...


 

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