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The Jaffe's (Guest) guest Dec-05-00, 10:00 PM (EST)   "3 foci ellipses"      Is there such a thing as a three-foci ellipse, and does it occur naturally in nature if it exists?   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

alexb Charter Member 672 posts Dec-05-00, 10:48 PM (EST)   1. "RE: 3 foci ellipses" In response to message #0      I do not know. I see no reason why a locus of points whose distances to three fixed points add up to a constant would not exist. But I never saw this discussed. Try posting your question to the sci.math newsgroup. Let me know if you learn anything. Alexander Bogomolny   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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