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  2. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    So there are two asymptotes, whose intersection is at the center of symmetry of the hyperbola, which can be thought of as the mirror point about which each branch reflects to form the other branch. In the case of the curve y ( x ) = 1 / x {\displaystyle y(x)=1/x} the asymptotes are the two coordinate axes .

  3. Dupin indicatrix - Wikipedia

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    In the limit this curve will form an ellipse aligned with the principal directions. The curvature lines make up the major and minor axes of the ellipse. In particular, the indicatrix of an umbilical point is a circle. For hyperbolic points, where the Gaussian curvature is negative, the intersection will form a hyperbola. Two different ...

  4. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    These correspond respectively to the limiting forms of an ellipse, parabola, and a hyperbola. If a conic in the Euclidean plane is being defined by the zeros of a quadratic equation (that is, as a quadric), then the degenerate conics are: the empty set , a point, or a pair of lines which may be parallel, intersect at a point, or coincide.

  5. Constructions in hyperbolic geometry - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbolic geometry is a non-Euclidean geometry where the first four axioms of Euclidean geometry are kept but the fifth axiom, the parallel postulate, is changed.The fifth axiom of hyperbolic geometry says that given a line L and a point P not on that line, there are at least two lines passing through P that are parallel to L. [1]

  6. Intersection (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A transversal intersection of two curves touching intersection (left), touching (right) Two curves in R 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{2}} (two-dimensional space), which are continuously differentiable (i.e. there is no sharp bend), have an intersection point, if they have a point of the plane in common and have at this point (see diagram):

  7. Confocal conic sections - Wikipedia

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    A pencil of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas is specified by choice of linear eccentricity c (the x-coordinate of one focus) and can be parametrized by the semi-major axis a (the x-coordinate of the intersection of a specific conic in the pencil and the x-axis). When 0 < a < c the conic is a hyperbola; when c < a the conic is an ellipse.

  8. Hyperbolic functions - Wikipedia

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    A ray through the unit hyperbola x 2 − y 2 = 1 at the point (cosh a, sinh a), where a is twice the area between the ray, the hyperbola, and the x-axis. For points on the hyperbola below the x-axis, the area is considered negative (see animated version with comparison with the trigonometric (circular) functions).

  9. Nine-point hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    Scott’s hyperbola is a Kiepert hyperbola of the triangle. Christopher Bath [5] describes a nine-point rectangular hyperbola passing through these centers: incenter X(1), the three excenters, the centroid X(2), the de Longchamps point X(20), and the three points obtained by extending the triangle medians to twice their cevian length.