What is the matter with negative r?

Autor: Douglas Quadling
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: The Mathematical Gazette. 75:174-178
ISSN: 2056-6328
0025-5572
DOI: 10.2307/3620247
Popis: Soon after the publication of the new edition of the SMP booklet Formulae for advanced mathematics with statistical tables, I received a letter from a colleague objecting to the statement that “If the origin is taken at a focus of the conic,…, then the equation of the conic has the form where e is the eccentricity …”
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