Maths(UK) is full of surprises

The radical axis theorem

How come that after 55 or so years of involment with math this came as a big surprise !!!!!

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What they didn’t tell you at school (conic sections)

They tell you that conic sections are exactly what the words describe : Slice a double cone, the edge of the slice is a conic section, parabola, hyperbola, ellipse.

Then they tell you that y = x^2 is a parabola, or that all second degree equations in x and y are conic sections, or worst of all, they come up with the focus/directrix definition.

NOBODY shows you how to get the equation from the sliced cone !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, here goes – (the math is after the picture, and it is so simple)