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Is a Parabola an Ellipse?


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Checking if a parabola is an ellipse?

An ellipse is a locus of all the points on a plane whose sum of the distance from two fixed points is a constant.

We can consider a parabola as an ellipse with one focal point at infinity.

Therefore, a parabola is an ellipse.


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