Complete Definition of "lemniscate of Bernouli"

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From w:Jakob Bernoulli|Jakob Bernoulli Swiss mathematician
Noun
lemniscate of Bernouli
#mathematics a closed curve, similar to a figure eight, that is the locus of a point, the product of whose distances from two fixed points (called the foci) a distance <math>2a</math> away is the constant <math>a^2</math>

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