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Seems to me that a one-dimensional circle would be two points on a number line separated by distance 2*r.


Hopefully I can justify the reasoning behind this with the following:

A circle is defined as the set of all points in a 2-dimensional space equidistant to a given center point (the distance being the circle's radius).

A sphere is defined as the set of all points in a 3-dimensional space equidistant to a given center point.

A line in 1-d does not analogize to this definition but a point does.




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