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Line 3: [[Image:Table_of_Conics,_Cyclopaedia,_volume_1,_p_304,_1728.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Table of conics, ''[[Cyclopaedia]]'', 1728]] In [[mathematics]], a '''conic section''' (or just '''conic''') is a [[curve]] that can be formed by intersecting a [[cone (~~solid~~geometry)\|cone]] (more precisely, a right circular [[conical surface]]) with a [[plane (mathematics)\|plane]]. The conic sections were named and studied as long ago as 200 BC, when [[Apollonius of Perga]] undertook a systematic study of their properties. ==Types of conics==

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