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		hnuser123456 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Superhyperbola I think the novelty of the article was in the 2nd image, and why it's so much less well known. But my theory is there are not as many applications for symmetrical curvy lines that diverge than symmetrical curvy lines that converge.

nlawalker 4 months ago [–]

Yeah that bit was funny to me. "I'm not sure why closed shapes are so ubiquitous and pairs of diverging lines aren't."

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