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Everything You Wanted to Know about Asymptotes but Were Too Afraid to Ask

Sep 14, 2020 | Hinsdale

An asymptote describes a concave line on a graph, that almost touches the x- and/or y-axis, but doesn't quite make it there. It looks like this:

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Wolfram Math World gives us a more technical definition: "An asymptote is a line or curve that approaches a given curve arbitrarily closely, as illustrated in the above diagram."

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In 1981, Ernő Rubik, hot on the heels of his 1977 smash-hit the Rubik's Cube, invented and released the Rubik's Snake, a very different kind of puzzle. The Snake consists of 24 isosceles triangular prisms, connected by spring bolts. The prisms can't be separated, but they can be twisted, allowing one to form the snake into many different shapes.

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April is not only Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, it's also National Poetry Month! To celebrate this union of art and science, the Smithsonian Magazine published [an article](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-poetry-and-math-intersect-180968869/) all about poets and mathematicians who have brought the two disciplines...

Everything You Wanted to Know about Asymptotes but Were Too Afraid to Ask

An asymptote describes a concave line on a graph, that almost touches the x- and/or y-axis, but doesn't quite make it there. It looks like this:

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