A catenary is the shape that a chain or necklace forms when held by the two ends. The Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens named this curve from the Latin word catenarius, which means "related to a chain."
The equation for a
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This website has SOOOOO much information on it! I can't even process it all! I'm glad you found it so we can all use it for our projects.
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Exponential Growth | Khan Academy - 1 views
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I like that you chose these countries because you think that to host the Olympics you probably have to be very large and have a huge population, but after looking at your data, I saw that it wasn't necessarily the case. From looking at the residuals, though, exponential curves didn't work very well.
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catenary curve is: y = k cosh(x/k) , where cosh is the hyperbolic cosine [cosh(x) = (ex + e-x)/2] and k is the y-intercept (where the curve hits the y-axis).
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