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Lamé's Special Quartic

Lamé's Special Quartic is the graph of the equation

x4 + y4 = a4

where a > 0. It looks like a rounded square with "sides" of length 2a and centered on the origin. This curve is a special case of a super ellipse.

01-04-2007 01:16:19
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