Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on the Lemniscate
Today I learnt:
The symbol for infinity has a name, it is a "Lemniscate" to mean "ribbon".
One version takes its definition from the locci of points with a constant product of distances from two fixed foci.
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Source: Wikipedia
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