19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
3:54 p.m.
On 2/19/07, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/19/07, Daniel Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Still, "Moss's oval" ( http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MosssEgg.html ) looks to me more like an egg than does the above curve for any values of p and q.
Which is in fact exactly the construction earlier extolled by David Cantrell.
Indeed it is! Thanks for the reference, Dan. I had no idea that MathWorld had such an entry. Now I need to find a copy of Mathographics in hopes of getting information about Moss... David