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mazesc
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Pr...
A circle is 1-dimensional and not 2-dimensional?
navaati
on May 20, 2020
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Yeah, a disc (the surface contained in a circle) is two dimensional. A circle is one dimensional because it only takes one number to decribe where you are in the circle (think rotary dial).
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