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Archimedean spiral
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English
Alternative forms
en spiral of Archimedes Archimedes' spiral
Etymology
Named after Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC), a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
Noun
en mathematics A spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate.
en arithmetic spiral
en Fermat's spiral
en 2010-11-16 Pi (film) Max flees and tries to visit Sol, only to find that he has died. Max searches his house and finds mathematical scribblings similar to his own. On a Go board, with its pieces arranged in an Archimedean spiral, Max finds a piece of paper with the 216-digit number.
Translations
a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate
Czech: cs Archimédova spirála f
Dutch: nl archimedes-spiraal m f
Esperanto: eo arĥimeda spiralo, eo arkimeda spiralo
Finnish: fi Arkhimedeen spiraali, fi aritmeettinen spiraali
French: fr spirale d'Archimède f
Hungarian: hu arkhimédészi spirál
Polish: pl spirala Archimedesa f
Portuguese: pt espiral de Arquimedes f
See also
en logarithmic spiral
en Curves
en eponyms