Q: What was the geometry student looking for at the beach?+ m+ M: ?/ a+ u# Q; ?% o. X
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A: A tangent. * ^( O1 r/ L! u! l3 d% j
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(geometry) a straight line that touches the outside of a curve but does not cross it