bicorn
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Bicorn with a = 1. Credit: Wikipedia
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Also known as the cocked-hat, any of a collection of quartic curves studied by James Sylvester in 1864 and by Arthur Cayley in 1867. The bicorn has the Cartesian equation
y2(a2 - x2) = (x2 + 2ay - a)2
Related category
PLANE CURVES
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