I am a geometric shape with no corners. If you cut me vertically down the middle, you get two symmetric shapes resembling the letter 'C' and its mirror image. If you square my number of straight sides, what is your answer?
0
The shape described is a circle, which has 0 straight sides. Squaring 0 yields 0.
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