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  2. Asymptote - Wikipedia

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    An oblique asymptote has a slope that is non-zero but finite, such that the graph of the function approaches it as x tends to +∞ or −∞. More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another (as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although the term ...

  3. Asymptotic curve - Wikipedia

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    The asymptotic directions are the same as the asymptotes of the hyperbola of the Dupin indicatrix through a hyperbolic point, or the unique asymptote through a parabolic point. [1] An asymptotic direction is a direction along which the normal curvature is zero: take the plane spanned by the direction and the surface's normal at that point. The ...

  4. Sigmoid function - Wikipedia

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    A sigmoid function is constrained by a pair of horizontal asymptotes as ... is a free parameter encoding the slope at =, which must be ...

  5. Generalised logistic function - Wikipedia

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    Richards's curve has the following form: = + (+) /where = weight, height, size etc., and = time. It has six parameters: : the left horizontal asymptote;: the right horizontal asymptote when =.

  6. Asymptotic analysis - Wikipedia

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    An asymptote is a straight line that a curve approaches but never meets or crosses. Informally, one may speak of the curve meeting the asymptote "at infinity" although this is not a precise definition. In the equation =, y becomes arbitrarily small in magnitude as x increases.

  7. Slope - Wikipedia

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    Slope illustrated for y = (3/2)x − 1.Click on to enlarge Slope of a line in coordinates system, from f(x) = −12x + 2 to f(x) = 12x + 2. The slope of a line in the plane containing the x and y axes is generally represented by the letter m, [5] and is defined as the change in the y coordinate divided by the corresponding change in the x coordinate, between two distinct points on the line.

  8. Asymptotology - Wikipedia

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    The field of asymptotics is normally first encountered in school geometry with the introduction of the asymptote, a line to which a curve tends at infinity.The word Ασύμπτωτος (asymptotos) in Greek means non-coincident and puts strong emphasis on the point that approximation does not turn into coincidence.

  9. Semi-log plot - Wikipedia

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    In other words, F is proportional to the logarithm of x times the slope of the straight line of its lin–log graph, plus a constant. Specifically, a straight line on a lin–log plot containing points ( F 0 , x 0 ) and ( F 1 , x 1 ) will have the function: