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Maclaurin trisectrix


trisectrix
A curve first studied by Colin Maclaurin in 1742 with a view to solving one of the great geometric problems of antiquity – trisecting an angle. The Maclaurin trisectrix results from the Cartesian equation

y2(a + x) = x2(3a - x).


It is an anallagmatic curve that intersects itself at the origin.


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