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CHAPTER 7

CIRCLES

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Wheels, gears, soup cans, coins, and even the

moon are some of the many things that are

circles (or nearly so) in one of their dimensions.

But in human history, we’ve also created circles

that live only in our imaginations, like the circles

that chop up the earth into handy measurements

of east, west, north, and south.

Circles are handy when you are making some-

thing because you can dr ...