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Is egg an ellipse?


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Determine if the egg is an ellipse

An ellipse is the locus of points in a plane, the sum of whose distance from two fixed points is a constant value.

It is represented as:

If we closely look at an egg, we find that it does not have a perfect symmetric shape. The distance from the center is not fixed. It has an asymmetric tapered oval shape.

Therefore, egg is not an ellipse.


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