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the shape with no corners to hide in and no end to its argument
means A perfectly round, closed curve where every point sits the same distance from a single center point; by extension, a group of people connected by shared interest.
from From Latin 'circulus,' a small ring or hoop — itself a diminutive of 'circus,' meaning a ring or circuit (the same root that gave us the Roman 'circus,' a round arena). It rolled into Old French as 'cercle' before settling into English. The whole family traces back to a Greek cousin, 'kirkos,' a ring — and beyond that to an ancient root for bending or turning, the idea of something curved back to meet itself.
- pi
- Its perfection requires a number that never repeats or ends
- infinite sides
- Mathematically, a polygon with endless tiny edges
- squaring it
- Proven impossible to build with compass and ruler
- fairest shape
- Every point sits equally far from center
stone circle of stonehenge — megalithic monument in wiltshire, england built around 2500 bce with 30-ton sarsen stones arranged in concentric circles
crop circles of wiltshire — geometric patterns flattened into english wheat fields since 1976, with over 2,000 documented formations
arctic circle — latitude line at 66°33'n marking the boundary where the sun doesn't set on summer solstice