Category:Definitions/Folium of Descartes

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Cartesian Form

The folium of Descartes is the locus of the equation:

$x^3 + y^3 - 3 a x y = 0$

Parametric Form

The folium of Descartes is the locus of the equation given in parametric form as:

$\begin {cases} x = \dfrac {3 a t} {1 + t^3} \\ y = \dfrac {3 a t^2} {1 + t^3} \end {cases}$