Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 75
rst degree, is the equation ofa straight line, whose angle with the axis of X is given bythe equation tan € = 7. 0 Since a and b retain the same values, whatever values weassign to h, e has the same value for each line of the system,and all the lines are parallel. 53. Distance betiveen Two Lilies… … ir\ Let OJf and OJVbe the respective intercepts of the lineson the axis of X. We shall then have Distance MQ = MN ^m s. 60 PLANE ANALYTIC OEOMETRT. Patting ?/ = 0 in the two equations ay -]-hx^c-k^ = 0 \and ay-\-hx-{-c — lc^ = Qf,) we have, for the intercepts, OM ^^^
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