central conic
central conic
[′sen·trəl ′kän·ik] (mathematics)
A conic that has a center, namely, a circle, ellipse, or hyperbola.
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-- This article is a short study of proper values of two-by-two matrices with real entries and some application to the reduction of
central conics. Key words: proper values; principal directions; symmetric matrices;
central conics.
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