Drilling a Square Hole

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One way of getting a curve of constant width is to start with a right isosceles triangle and draw arcs of circles centered at the vertices as indicated by the red curves and the blue curve at the top. Then if the resulting curve is rotated so that it st...

Contributed by: Stan Wagon (Macalester College)

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