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It’s interesting to read others reasoning on this. I find it hard to follow and much harder to generalize without some notation (and a diagram which this comment box struggles to reproduce)



I like to decompose it.

Hold center of small circle still, rotate big circle once counter clock wise, small one rotates 3x clockwise.

Glue them together, rotate big circle once clockwise, small circle also rotates once clockwise.

Sum them together, 0 rotations for big circle, 4 for small. I'm not at all sure how to rigorously generalize.




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