Magnetic Lines of Dipole and Circular Current wire

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What is the difference between the Magnetic Field Lines of the Dipole and Circular Current Carrying Wire at the centre?
 
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The farther away you move from the current loop in some arbitrary direction, the closer its field looks like that of a point dipole. If you have a circular current loop and move along the axis, then the field is identical to that of a point dipole in that is as a ##1/r^3## dependence.