Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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demonstrations.wolfram.com/RouletteHypotrochogonOfAPolygonRollingInsideACircle

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This Demonstration shows the roulette drawn by a point attached to a regular polygon rolling without slipping inside a circle. This roulette curve is a sequence of circular arcs traced by the polygon when rolling along the edge of the circle. For genera...

Contributed by: Erik Mahieu

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