Encyclopedia > Tractricoid

Article Content

Tractricoid

A tractricoid is the result of revolving a tractrix[?] about its asymptote. It has constant negative intrinsic curvature, except at the cusp, and is an embedding of part of a pseudosphere.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Digital Rights Management

... (CSS) employed by the DVD Consortium[?] on movie DVD disks. The data on the DVD is encrypted so that it can only be decoded and viewed using an encryption key, which the ...