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minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·24 days agoA web search tells me the θ (lower-case theta) is used to represent an angle. Do you just fill in 0° – 359.9° one after another to draw that curve?
minus-squareSphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-224 days agoYes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system Since this curve is cyclical, you can do it [-infinity ; +infinity] and it’s the same curve again and again.
A web search tells me the θ (lower-case theta) is used to represent an angle. Do you just fill in 0° – 359.9° one after another to draw that curve?
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system
Since this curve is cyclical, you can do it [-infinity ; +infinity] and it’s the same curve again and again.
Thanks. 🙂