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  2. Eccentricity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, on a triaxial ellipsoid, the meridional eccentricity is that of the ellipse formed by a section containing both the longest and the shortest axes (one of which will be the polar axis), and the equatorial eccentricity is the eccentricity of the ellipse formed by a section through the centre, perpendicular to the polar axis (i.e. in ...

  3. Elliptical distribution - Wikipedia

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    In the 2-dimensional case, if the density exists, each iso-density locus (the set of x 1,x 2 pairs all giving a particular value of ()) is an ellipse or a union of ellipses (hence the name elliptical distribution).

  4. Finding Ellipses - Wikipedia

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    Finding Ellipses: What Blaschke Products, Poncelet’s Theorem, and the Numerical Range Know about Each Other is a mathematics book on "some surprising connections among complex analysis, geometry, and linear algebra", [1] and on the connected ways that ellipses can arise from other subjects of study in all three of these fields. [2]

  5. Ellipse - Wikipedia

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    An ellipse (red) obtained as the intersection of a cone with an inclined plane. Ellipse: notations Ellipses: examples with increasing eccentricity. In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.

  6. Illumination problem - Wikipedia

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    Solutions to the illumination problem by George W. Tokarsky (26 sides) and David Castro (24 sides) This problem was also solved for polygonal rooms by George Tokarsky in 1995 for 2 and 3 dimensions, which showed that there exists an unilluminable polygonal 26-sided room with a "dark spot" which is not illuminated from another point in the room ...

  7. Ellipsoid method - Wikipedia

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    Each problem p in the family is represented by a data-vector Data(p), e.g., the real-valued coefficients in matrices and vectors representing the function f and the feasible region G. The size of a problem p, Size(p), is defined as the number of elements (real numbers) in Data(p). The following assumptions are needed: G (the feasible region) is:

  8. Conjugate diameters - Wikipedia

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    For an ellipse, two diameters are conjugate if and only if the tangent line to the ellipse at an endpoint of one diameter is parallel to the other diameter. Each pair of conjugate diameters of an ellipse has a corresponding tangent parallelogram, sometimes called a bounding parallelogram (skewed compared to a bounding rectangle).

  9. Geodesics on an ellipsoid - Wikipedia

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    Handling the direct problem is straightforward, because α 0 can be determined directly from the given quantities φ 1 and α 1; for a sample calculation, see Karney (2013). In the case of the inverse problem, λ 12 is given; this cannot be easily related to the equivalent spherical angle ω 12 because α 0 is unknown.