8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
7:50 a.m.
I blathered
and polar i t 2 2 r = e ((cos(2 t) + b) + (c cos(t) + d) )
No, that's z(t) = cis(t) r(t), which should've said 2 2 r = (cos(2 t) + b) + (c cos(t) + d) . I guess this means nobody tried to plot it for b = 0.17108, c = - 0.03844, d = - 0.0484, or b = 3.83214, c = 1.41969, d = 5.42912 . For the former, there's a shift and scale which intersects Moss's egg fourteen times, and twelve for the latter, yet the latter is a better fit. --rwg