Friday, January 15, 2010

Deltoids

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The instructor is big on cardio fitness.

A deltoid is a hypocycloid of three cusps.
A hypocycloid is a special kind of hypotrochoid.
A hypotrochoid is a curve traced by ... ah, hell, I'm switching to being a Liberal Arts major.
Or a poet. No one expects anything from a poet.


1 comment:

Spiked Math said...

Not sure if you would make as much money as a poet ;-)

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." Albert Einstein.