Archimedean spiral


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Archimedean spiral
The Archimedean spiral (also known as the arithmetic spiral or spiral of Archimedes) is a spiral named after the 3rd century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. It is the locus of points corresponding to the locations over time of a point moving away from a fixed point with a constant speed along a line which rotates with constant angular velocity. Equivalently, in polar coordinates (r, θ) it can be described by the equation

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