11 Feb
2006
11 Feb
'06
6:08 a.m.
% convert hyperb.GIF hyperb.png % ll hyperb* -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 2383401 2006-02-11 14:04 hyperb.GIF -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 1053917 2006-02-11 14:04 hyperb.png _identical_ quality % rpm -qf =convert ImageMagick-6.1.8-6 png images are often three times smaller than the corresponding gif. * R. William Gosper <rwg@osots.com> [Feb 10. 2006 22:18]:
paint big. www.tweedledum.com/rwg/hyperb.GIF is a large (4800x3500, 2.27MB, too big for IE?) captioned demonstration that the hyperbola as conic section is the locus of constant distance difference. (I deleted the monster bmp.) --rwg
-- p=2^q-1 prime <== q>2, cosh(2^(q-2)*log(2+sqrt(3)))%p=0 Life is hard and then you die.