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  • themusicman@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    For anyone still struggling with the intuition:

    How many times does a circle rotate if you roll it around a tiny dot? 1

    How many times does it rotate if you roll it around another circle the same size? Gotta be more than the dot, right?