Serpentine curve

A serpentine curve is a curve whose equation is of the form Equivalently, it has a parametric representation or functional representation The curve has an inflection point at the origin.

It has local extrema at

Serpentine curves were studied by L'Hôpital and Huygens, and named and classified by Newton.

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