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Square measure is reasonable to find areas because square regions can cover a flat surface with no overlapping and no holes.

Although you usually read only about the area covered by an oil slick, it also has volume.

A planimeter is a tool that measures the area of irregular shapes by tracing the perimeter of the figure. A planimeter involves the concepts of polar coordinates.

 

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