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Once again, lemniscate

Oct 23, 1995 12:09 PM
by Ann E. Bermingham


Bee and others:

I guess my on-line dictionary isn't as good as I thought. The dictionary I
found in my Chicago alley gave this definition.

lemniscate - (noun) [NL lemniscata, fr. fem. of L lemniscatus "with hanging
ribbons", fr. leniscus]: a figure-eight shaped curve whose equation in polar
coordinates is p squared= a squared cos 2(theta)

Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 1980

- ann


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