Greg Egan on Nostr: If you plot any polynomial whose terms are all quadratic or higher, the curvature of ...
If you plot any polynomial whose terms are all quadratic or higher, the curvature of the plot at the origin will *always* be exactly twice the coefficient of the quadratic term, which is the 2nd derivative of the polynomial at the origin.
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