Logarithmic spiral
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title:
Logarithmic spiral
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A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral, or growth spiral is a self-similar spiral curve that often appears in nature. The first to describe a logarithmic spiral was Albrecht Dürer (1525) who called it an "eternal line". More than a century later, the curve was discussed by Descartes (1638), and later extensively investigated by Jacob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, "the marvelous spiral". The logarithmic spiral can be distinguished from the Archimedean spiral by the fact that the dis
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Self-similar growth curve
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral
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2024-04-05T07:06:17Z
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