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Well, it s Gabriel, Gabriel playin !
Gabriel, Gabriel sayin
When I blow my horn?
- Cole Porter,
Anything Goes
The commenters in last week s Sunday Function proposed an excellent idea for this week. As we did then, we ll start simple and work up to it. Graph the curve f(x) = 1/x.
Now take the horizontal axis and think of it as an axle, one that can rotate smoothly. Hook a motor onto it and spin it up to a nice fast clip. The graph of the function will trace out a surface in three-dimensional space. In the business, we call it a