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Circles, parabolas, ellipses,and hyperbolas are called conic sections because you can get those shapes by placing two cones - one on top of the other - with only the tip touching, and then you cut those cones by a plane. When you move that plane around you get different shapes.
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What are the geometric characteristics of a circle ellipse parabola and hyperbola?
They are all conic sections.
Which shape have no straight edges?
There are infinitely many shapes. Amongst them are conic sections (circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola); epicycles, cardoids, etc; totally irregular shapes like blobs or outlines of clouds or puddles of water; etc.
What is the circumference of an ellipse?
It isn't possible to give a generalised formula for the circumference of an ellipse in terms of elementary functions.
What is the formula for finding the area of an ellipse?
the formula for finding the area of an ellipse is add it then multiply and subtract that is the final
What is the mathematical shape of an egg?
I think it's an ellipse. Ellipse is most likely the closest shape of an egg.
