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How do you tell the difference between a circle and an ellipse?

How do you tell the difference between a circle and an ellipse?-example-1

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The only difference between the circle and the ellipse is that in an ellipse, there are two radius measures, one horizontally along the x-axis, the other vertically along the y-axis. Clearly, for a circle both these have the same value. By convention, the y radius is usually called b and the x radius is called a.

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