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Course: Geometry (all content) > Unit 3

Lesson 4: Curves and polygons

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Intro to curves

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In daily language, we all use the word curve to mean "not straight" but does the word curve have the same meaning in math? Can a straight line be a curve? Also, what makes a curve a 'simple curve'? Created by Aanand Srinivas.

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shreyas0502
Posted 5 years ago. Direct link to shreyas0502's post “At the last , I would cal...”
At the last , I would call it an Open Curve , because it is not closed or does not start from one point and end at the same point later. Do you agree?
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tulelj
Posted 2 years ago. Direct link to tulelj's post “wow.i never knew THIS exi...”
wow.i never knew THIS existed!
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tulelj
Posted 2 years ago. Direct link to tulelj's post “oh and the question, the ...”
oh and the question, the spiral is a simple ,and is not crossed.
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Sann
Posted a year ago. Direct link to Sann's post “Definition of curve is "A...”
Definition of curve is "A curve is a shape or a line which is smoothly and continuously drawn in a plane having a bent or turns in it". So according to the definition of curve, can we say that any 2D shapes or plane figures are also a curve in geometry?
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Sann
Posted a year ago. Direct link to Sann's post “Can we say that any 2D sh...”
Can we say that any 2D shapes or plane figures are also a curve?
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Samarth Sundaram
Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Samarth Sundaram's post “If I am right Curve is a ...”
If I am right Curve is a line with start and end with no gaps .
Is straight line is curve ? or we are talking about line segment
cause straight line has no start and end but line segment have .
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4567
Posted 6 months ago. Direct link to 4567's post “how to find that it is a ...”
how to find that it is a open curve or closed cure
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FoodIsMagical
Posted 4 years ago. Direct link to FoodIsMagical's post “soooo.... the straight li...”
soooo.... the straight line is curve or not, this has confused me...
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- aditya.1550
  Posted 10 months ago. Direct link to aditya.1550's post “*no because it is a strai...”
  no because it is a straight line
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sunandita.iyyappan
Posted 2 months ago. Direct link to sunandita.iyyappan's post “`Is there a more sophisti...”
Is there a more sophisticated way to say "not" simple curve? At
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, it's mentioned that there is, but WHAT IS IT?
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Naboni
Posted 4 years ago. Direct link to Naboni's post “I thought this was going ...”
I thought this was going to be curves on a graph?
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