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Happy Mother’s Day 2e3 + 10

Dear mother! Let your parametric curves be smooth, continuous, and differentiable ∀ϑ ∊ <0, 2π>. Happy Mother’s Day 2010! (that exclamation mark is not a factorial)

$ gnuplot

	G N U P L O T
	Version 4.2 patchlevel 4 
	last modified Sep 2008
	System: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic

	Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008
	Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

	Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
	The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/

	Send bug reports and suggestions to <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot>


Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot> set polar

	dummy variable is t for curves
gnuplot> set xrange [-1.5:1.5]
gnuplot> set yrange [-3:2]
gnuplot> set size ratio 1.5
gnuplot> set samples 500
gnuplot> plot 3e-4/(1+sin(t)) with filledcurves closed linecolor 2, \
cos(4*t) with filledcurves closed linecolor 8, \
sin(4*t) with filledcurves closed linecolor 1

A flower in polar coordinates

Published on May 9, MMX 2.00 PM and tagged as Humor and Mathematics.

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