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The eccentricity of the parabola y^2=16

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As we know, eccentricity is the distance from any point on the parabola to its focus, divided by the perpendicular distance from that point to the directrix.

Any point on parabola possesses equal distance to its focus and directrix. Hence, the eccentricity of the parabola comes out to be 1.

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