cartesian oval

the set of points that have the same linear combination of distances from two fixed points
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cartesian oval

Summary

cartesian oval ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • René Descartes is named after cartesian oval[2].
  • cartesian oval's subclass of is recorded as algebraic curve[3].
  • cartesian oval's subclass of is recorded as closed curve[4].
  • cartesian oval's Commons category is recorded as Cartesian oval[5].
  • cartesian oval's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dllsgt[6].
  • cartesian oval's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • cartesian oval's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • cartesian oval's defining formula is recorded as p_1r_1+p_2r_2=const[9].
  • cartesian oval's defining formula is recorded as (x^2 + y^2 - 2ax)^2 = b^2(x^2 + y^2) + c[10].
  • cartesian oval's BabelNet ID is recorded as 02277558n[11].
  • cartesian oval's MathWorld ID is recorded as CartesianOvals[12].
  • cartesian oval's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[13].
  • cartesian oval's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 22763088[14].
  • cartesian oval's Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID is recorded as ovale-di-cartesio[15].
  • cartesian oval's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as dekartov-oval-daed51[16].

Why It Matters

cartesian oval ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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