A Rudimentary Treatise on Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections

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John Weale, 1850 - 128 páginas
 

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Página 15 - In this equation n is the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissae, and B is the intercept on this axis from the origin.
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