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Parabolic Numbers (Posted on 2017-09-18) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Consider two points on parabola y=x2, (-a,a2) and (b,b2), where a and b are distinct real numbers.

If these two points are connected by a straight line, where does that line intersect the y-axis?


Inspired by an interactive sculpture at the Museum of Mathematics, NYC.

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(In reply to No Subject by JayDeeKay)

It's interesting to be the geometric mean of a^2 and b^2
  Posted by chun on 2017-09-18 15:30:04

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