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Some plane curve pathologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. T. Croft
Affiliation:
PeterhouseCambridge

Extract

We construct various pathological curves and sequences of curves to solve three problems of Steinhaus.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1962

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* Tangents (both here and in Problem 2 below) count once only at each point of contact.

Clearly a trivial solution is given by a straight line, parts of which are taken twice, thrice, … Our solution is related to this.

* We write exp2(n) for 2n for convenience.

The A's are absolute constants different in each context.