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These two numbers should agree, and for all the other pinwheels, they do.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

Turn it into fun and easy pinwheels to affix to walls, doorways, bar carts, and anything else your heart desires.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2021

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News • Dec. 13, 2021

By the end, my own eyeballs hadn’t changed color, but they must have looked like pinwheels.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2020

The darkness made me see pinwheels like sparklers.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck