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24-Ruby IV
December 17, 2017
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Catenary = Physic + Math + IT

  • December 17, 2017
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It is the site of the article "Catenary = Physic + Math + IT" (color picture + Mathcad sheet)

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24-Ruby IV
December 28, 2017

We can have thru 5 points a hyperbola (D<0), an ellipse (D>0) or (good chance D=0) a parabola:

hyperbola-parabola-ellipse.gif

24-Ruby IV
December 28, 2017

The solution with the Find Function: the partial vectorization!

And second - we can add more points, change the Find function to MinErr function and get not the interpolation but approximation!

XY-Find.png

24-Ruby IV
January 21, 2018

One more experiment (see please the attached Mathcad 15 file)

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