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The ancients knew quite well that the only curves that can be described by a second-degree equation are the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola; in addition, there are the singular cases of a pair of intersecting lines.
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Arnold, V.I. (2013). Geometry of Conic Sections. In: Itenberg, I., Kharlamov, V., Shustin, E. (eds) Real Algebraic Geometry. UNITEXT(), vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36243-9_2
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