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  2. Rose (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of roses are composed of petals.A petal is the shape formed by the graph of a half-cycle of the sinusoid that specifies the rose. (A cycle is a portion of a sinusoid that is one period T = ⁠ 2π / k ⁠ long and consists of a positive half-cycle, the continuous set of points where r ≥ 0 and is ⁠ T / 2 ⁠ = ⁠ π / k ⁠ long, and a negative half-cycle is the other half where r ...

  3. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    The point E is an arbitrary point on the parabola. The focus is F, the vertex is A (the origin), and the line FA is the axis of symmetry. The line EC is parallel to the axis of symmetry, intersects the x axis at D and intersects the directrix at C. The point B is the midpoint of the line segment FC.

  4. Symmetry in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Symmetry occurs not only in geometry, but also in other branches of mathematics. Symmetry is a type of invariance: the property that a mathematical object remains unchanged under a set of operations or transformations. [1] Given a structured object X of any sort, a symmetry is a mapping of the object onto itself which preserves the structure.

  5. Curve sketching - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the significant terms near the origin under this assumption are only those lying on the line and the others may be ignored; it produces a simple approximate equation for the curve. There may be several such diagonal lines, each corresponding to one or more branches of the curve, and the approximate equations of the branches may be ...

  6. Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    The type of symmetry is determined by the way the pieces are organized, or by the type of transformation: An object has reflectional symmetry (line or mirror symmetry) if there is a line (or in 3D a plane) going through it which divides it into two pieces that are mirror images of each other. [6]

  7. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    Line is the bisector of the angle between the lines ¯, ¯. In order to prove that w {\displaystyle w} is the tangent line at point P {\displaystyle P} , one checks that any point Q {\displaystyle Q} on line w {\displaystyle w} which is different from P {\displaystyle P} cannot be on the hyperbola.

  8. Phyllotaxis - Wikipedia

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    Alternate distichous leaves will have an angle of 1/2 of a full rotation. In beech and hazel the angle is 1/3, [citation needed] in oak and apricot it is 2/5, in sunflowers, poplar, and pear, it is 3/8, and in willow and almond the angle is 5/13. [6] The numerator and denominator normally consist of a Fibonacci number and its second successor ...

  9. Symmetry (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A circle is thus said to be symmetric under rotation or to have rotational symmetry. If the isometry is the reflection of a plane figure about a line, then the figure is said to have reflectional symmetry or line symmetry; [3] it is also possible for a figure/object to have more than one line of symmetry. [4]