BicornThe bicorn is the name of a collection of Sylvester in 1864 and Cayley in 1867 (MacTutor Archive). The bicorn is given by the parametric equations
The graph is similar to that of the Cocked Hat Curve. References
Lawrence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 147-149, 1972.MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. ``Bicorn.''http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html.
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