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Suppose we have two ellipses in 2-dimensions centered at the origin. It is easy to visualize that (unless one is contained in the other) they will have 4 points of intersection. Can we say that in three dimensions, three generic ellipsoids will have a common point of intersection (unless one is contained in the other) or is there a counterexample? Is there a similar result in n-dimensions?

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