Consider a circle and an ellipse:
A point on either shape could be represented in polar coordinates, with and being the respective radii of the circle and ellipse as a functions of . Let and be the areas of the circle and ellipse, respectively.
Suppose we make a hybrid shape, defined as follows:
If is the radius of the hybrid shape, is a constant, and is the hybrid shape area, what is ?
Note: denotes the floor function
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