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What do the numbers refer to?
Are they the same value more than once during the dot's motion around the circle?
Are the three values connected and if so how?
Why not draw some graphs of the values to help explain what you find.
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NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.