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Old 10-11-2005, 12:18 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by filtherton
A circle is a relatively simple construction. How would one find the opposite of a circle? An anticircle? What does the equation of an anticircle look like? A circle encloses an area, would an anticircle have to enclose some sort of negative area, or would it simply not enclose an area at all? I don't know. I do know that i know and understand circles well enough, yet i have no clue what composes its opposite.

I guess i find little use for such a limited perspective.

I would think, in it's context, that an anti-circle would, in fact, be all area not encompassed by said circle. It's equation would take all of existance and subtract from it the area of the known circle.
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