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Famous Curves Index

• chasingsparks 17y ago
  Reason #4,298 that I love HN -- serendipity. I have a project on my plate that requires a library of popular curve functions. It was my TODO item tomorrow. Thanks for freeing up my Sunday.
• ekpyrotic 17y ago
  There's been a few St Andrews articles recently, any other St Andreans here?
  • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    Yup. I'm a graduate of the "mac labs".
    • ekpyrotic 17y ago
      What are you working on? Have you decided to work in the UK/US/elsewhere?
      • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
        Um, my wife and I run a pottery studio - a natural follow up to chemistry and theor.phys+maths degrees! How about you? Plans for when you leave?
• mynameishere 17y ago
  How do I get Wolfram Alpha to plot these things http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Newtons.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Newtons.h... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7Ba+y%5E2+%3D+x+%28x%5E2-2+b+x%2Bc%29%2Ca%3E0%7D http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7Ba+y%5E2+%3D+x+%28x%5...
  • pwmanagerdied 17y ago
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y+%3D+sqrt%28x%28x^2-2x%29%29 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y+%3D+sqrt%28x%28x^2-2x... The equation there has five different variables, you can generally only graph expressions with two. In the above link I've eliminated them, but if you play around with their values instead you'd be able to produce a more interesting graph. I think. I may be misunderstanding this.