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Find all polar coordinates of point p where p= (4, pi/3)

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With polar coordinates this isn’t true. In polar coordinates there is literally an infinite number of coordinates for a given point. For instance, the following four points are all coordinates for the same point. Here is a sketch of the angles used in these four sets of coordinates.

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