At what point does a circle start losing area WHEN BEING FLATTENED?

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Immediately. But the area ratio decreases slowly at first then more rapidly.

The area of an ellipse is A=pi x a X b, a and b are the 1/2 major and 1/2 minor axis. If a = r = b the area is A=pi X r² , which is a circle. Not hard to graph this....but you will have to write the area of the ellipse in terms of the circumference. There is no exact formula for this-- see:

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/ellipse.htm#elliptic

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