N-ellipse
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N-ellipse
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In geometry, the n-ellipse is a generalization of the ellipse allowing more than two foci. n-ellipses go by numerous other names, including multifocal ellipse, polyellipse, egglipse, k-ellipse, and Tschirnhaus'sche Eikurve. They were first investigated by James Clerk Maxwell in 1846. Given n focal points (ui, vi) in a plane, an n-ellipse is the locus of points of the plane whose sum of distances to the n foci is a constant d. In formulas, this is the set The 1-ellipse is the circle, and the 2-el
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Generalization of the ellipse to allow more than two foci
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