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In mathematics, the eccentricity of a conic section is a non-negative real number that uniquely characterizes its shape.
More formally two conic sections are similar if and only if they have the same eccentricity.
One can think of the eccentricity as a measure of how much a conic section deviates from being circular. In particular: