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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The graph of a degenerate circle is a _____.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ellipse I guess: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Degenerate.html

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@math92130 :you there?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

it was incorrect

OpenStudy (amistre64):

a degenerate circle is just a point, a circle of no radius

OpenStudy (anonymous):

uh got mistaken/confused... with the 'circle is the degenerate form of ellipse'..sorry. But the answer to your question is ggiven in that link @math92130 'A limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class. For example, the point is a degenerate case of the circle as the radius approaches 0'

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