Definition:Cruciform Curve/Also known as

Cruciform Curve: Also known as

The cruciform curve is also known by the whimsical name the policeman on point duty.

While prime.mover remembers this attribution, he has no idea where he got it from now.

While still a pupil at school, he had access to a copy of a fascinating book in the school library that had in it a short catalogue of cubic and quartic curves.

One of these curves was this one.

He would give his eye teeth to find out what book it was he found it in.