Greg Egan on Nostr: If instead of keeping the quadratic term fixed, you fix the cubic term, then the rate ...
If instead of keeping the quadratic term fixed, you fix the cubic term, then the rate of change of curvature along the plotted curve will, at the origin, *always* be 6 times the cubic coefficient, which is the 3rd derivative of the polynomial at the origin.
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