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Turtle Draws an Ellipse.
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Dreyfus, Tommy – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1988
Proposes to modify the procedure proposed by Abelson and diSessa to produce a polygonal path with vertices that lie exactly on an ellipse. Provides a detailed proof. Implements a limiting process to produce the best possible approximation to any ellipse for any given screen resolution. (CW)
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