Pedal curve

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What Wikipedia says

In mathematics, a pedal curve of a given curve results from the orthogonal projection of a fixed point on the tangent lines of this curve.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Pedal curve”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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