inductor coiling count

I just want to clear up on how to count the number of turns in an inductor.
Look at this badly drawn inductor.

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What is the number of coils here? is it one or two?

then look at the if i put the coil above into an iron core, it will look like this:

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If the count is 1, is it safe to assume the the number of lines outside the iron core is the number of turns that i made?


Thanks. =)

wakoko79 said:

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What is the number of coils here? is it one or two?

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About 1.75. To be two turns, it would have to look like this:




To count turns wound on a toroid core, count the number of wires that penetrate the hole...