A serpentine curve is a curve whose equation is of the form, where . Equivalently, it has a parametric representation . Serpentine curves were studied by L'Hopital and Huygens, and named and classified by Newton.
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* [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SerpentineCurve.html MathWorld - Serpentine Equation]
* [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Serpentine.html]
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