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Maffett Maffett is offline
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I think the answer is two times.

Sorry for the poor quality sketch. The contact point between the coins "travels" a distance of 6pi. The smaller coin has a circumference of 2pi. Therefore the smaller coin "rolls" three times during the trip. But point B only circumnavigates point A twice. It would circumnavigate three times if the trip had been in a straight line. But one doesn't happen because the distance traveled was a circle.
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