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If the eccentricity is a maximum value of 1, is it a circle or a straight line?

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if the eccentricity is a minimum value of 0 it is a circle because you have only one point and there is no focal distance.

However, if the eccentricity is a maximum value of 1, it would be a line.

Hence, the answer is a straight line.

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