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Epicycloid

In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle — called epicycle — which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular kind of roulette.
The epicycloid is a special kind of epitrochoid.
by Slade Lellock October 21, 2007
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