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Comment by symmetricsaurus

Interesting case!

You can see it is R/r local revolutions of the small circle. Then you need to add one global revolution from going around the large circle. So R/r + 1.

This is of course what the article is saying pretty much.

Are there other situations that require a similar reasoning?

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