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A commercial firm encountered problems in the grinding and polishing of conicoid contact lenses. The base curves of the lenses are plunge cut into cylindrical blanks on a lathe, and some simple coordinate geometry relating the parameters of the incised curve to the lathe settings showed that an elementary mathematical error had occurred in the specifications for the lathe.
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Davis, A.W. (1982). On the Grinding of Contact Lenses — A Mathematical Aberration. In: Anderssen, R.S., de Hoog, F.R. (eds) The Application of Mathematics in Industry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7834-1_10
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