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IntroductionThis HP 38G Curves Collection was originally created by Jim Donnelly, one of the designers of the HP38G. It was inspired in part by requests from students and teachers and by the Famous Curves Collection on the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive web page. Many of the curves presented here are described on the MacTutor page, along with interesting notes about the mathematician who first described the curve. There are also curves on the MacTutor page which do not lend themselves well to the calculator, since the graphics display is quite limited.It is easiy to create aplets for these curves yourself, and the process of creating an aplet for the Astroid curve is shown below the table. Note: In Polar aplets, the independent variable is theta, which will be represented in the table below by Ø.
Creating a Curve aplet for the Astroid curveYou can, of course, just enter the equation into the appropriate aplet (Function, Parametric or Polar) but you may want to create a copy, renamed for the curve, so that you have it stored permanently. instructions are given below on how to do this.
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