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Not circular, since the pejorative usage of "nice" is not the same - "helical evolution", in my view, would be a more apt metaphor for this interesting phenomenon: contrary to an ellipse, a helix is not a closed curve.



Thanks. My grasp of geometry is distinctly non-Euclidean. More uselessean, actually.

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