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When is an oval not an ellipse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Nick Lord
Nick Lord*
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Tonbridge School, Kent TN9 1JP
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 86 , Issue 505 , March 2002 , pp. 92 - 94
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