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  2. Mathematics of paper folding - Wikipedia

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    The napkin folding problem is the problem of whether a square or rectangle of paper can be folded so the perimeter of the flat figure is greater than that of the original square. The placement of a point on a curved fold in the pattern may require the solution of elliptic integrals.

  3. Superellipse - Wikipedia

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    This formula defines a closed curve contained in the rectangle −a ≤ x ≤ +a and −b ≤ y ≤ +b.The parameters and are the semi-diameters or semi-axes of the curve. The overall shape of the curve is determined by the value of the exponent , as shown in the following table:

  4. Perimeter - Wikipedia

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    Perimeter is the distance around a two dimensional shape, a measurement of the distance around something; the length of the boundary. A perimeter is a closed path that encompasses, surrounds, or outlines either a two dimensional shape or a one-dimensional length. The perimeter of a circle or an ellipse is called its circumference.

  5. Fractal dimension - Wikipedia

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    The terms fractal dimension and fractal were coined by Mandelbrot in 1975, [16] about a decade after he published his paper on self-similarity in the coastline of Britain. . Various historical authorities credit him with also synthesizing centuries of complicated theoretical mathematics and engineering work and applying them in a new way to study complex geometries that defied description in ...

  6. Koch snowflake - Wikipedia

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    The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island [1] [2]) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" [3] by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.

  7. Exponentiation by squaring - Wikipedia

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    For example, to calculate the exponent 398, which has binary expansion (110 001 110) 2, we take a window of length 3 using the 2 k-ary method algorithm and calculate 1, x 3, x 6, x 12, x 24, x 48, x 49, x 98, x 99, x 198, x 199, x 398.

  8. Semiperimeter - Wikipedia

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    In any triangle, the distance along the boundary of the triangle from a vertex to the point on the opposite edge touched by an excircle equals the semiperimeter.. The semiperimeter is used most often for triangles; the formula for the semiperimeter of a triangle with side lengths a, b, c

  9. Minimum bounding rectangle - Wikipedia

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    A series of geometric shapes enclosed by its minimum bounding rectangle. In computational geometry, the minimum bounding rectangle (MBR), also known as bounding box (BBOX) or envelope, is an expression of the maximum extents of a two-dimensional object (e.g. point, line, polygon) or set of objects within its x-y coordinate system; in other words min(x), max(x), min(y), max(y).