Q: What was the geometry student looking for at the beach?/ u3 ^* f) Y& M. }' o# p; m0 U
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A: A tangent. 9 Y: |0 [, L2 M+ ?; [4 H! x
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(geometry) a straight line that touches the outside of a curve but does not cross it