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  • CommationCerebrole
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    11 months ago

    There’s one extra-rotation from an external perspective due to the revolution of one around the other. So the formula is r1 / r2 + 1.

    This extra-rotation doesn’t appear from the point of view of the circles, or if you consider the circles as two stationary gears