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Remember drawing this in highschool?

Is there any name/identity for this specific graph?

I want to mention it in an essay without talking about tangential lines to curves and all that mathy stuff.

>> No.4366809

I used to make these with string as a kid.
I think the resulting curve is a Bézier curve.

Cool thing is, they were conceived by Boole's wife. As it turns out, she was a mathematician herself, and wrote some works on math and science education. This should give some hope to you forever alone types.

>> No.4366815

>>4366809
too bad she was ugly as shit. just because we're forever alone doesn't mean we have no standards.

>> No.4366854

>>4366815
Can you find a photo taken before she was 60?

>> No.4366868

>>4366815
>If you were attracted to intelligence, you wouldn't be single.jpg

>> No.4367722

bump

>> No.4367726

Astroid

gifs here http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/astroid/astroid.shtml

>> No.4367762

its called an 'envelope'. Google "math envelope"

You're welcome.

>> No.4367771

It's an asymtote.

>> No.4367773

>>4366815
This nigga knows what's up.

>> No.4367774

quads

>> No.4367776

>>4367777

>> No.4367778

>>4367777

>> No.4367779

I know in general you'd call it an envelope, not sure that specific one though

>> No.4367785

>>4367774
>>4367776
>>4367778
>>>/b/

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>>4367785
>>>/newfag/

You can take the chantard out of /b/, but you can't the /b/ out of the chantard.

Observe my duplicate numerals, plebeian.