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See also list of curves. Algebraic curves. Rational curves. Degree 1. Line. Degree 2 ... Semicubical parabola. Serpentine curve. Trident curve. Trisectrix of Maclaurin.
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about curves used in different fields: mathematics ... Parabola; Hyperbola. Unit hyperbola; Degree 3. Cubic plane curves include
The area enclosed by a parabola and a line segment, the so-called "parabola segment", was computed by Archimedes by the method of exhaustion in the 3rd century BC, in his The Quadrature of the Parabola. The name "parabola" is due to Apollonius, who discovered many properties of conic sections.
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Approximations of this are found in nature Fibonacci spiral: circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling: approximation of the golden spiral golden spiral = special case of the logarithmic spiral Spiral of Theodorus (also known as Pythagorean spiral)
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While a parabolic arch may resemble a catenary arch, a parabola is a quadratic function while a catenary is the hyperbolic cosine, cosh(x), a sum of two exponential functions. One parabola is f(x) = x 2 + 3x − 1, and hyperbolic cosine is cosh(x) = e x + e −x / 2 . The curves are unrelated.