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and we thus have 4M 1 + 3£iV = 0,
LM + vf~N = 0,
L 2 — 12 iv 2 M = 0,
or, what is the same thing,
L,
12 M,
-9X
w'\
L,
M
for the equation of the cuspidal curve. Attending to the second and third equations,
these. are quartics having in common w 2 = 0, L = 0, that is, the line y = 0, w = 0 four
times; or the cuspidal curve is a partial intersection 4x4 — 4: c' = 12.
Section VI = 12 - 5 3 - C,.
Article Nos. 95 to 102. Equation WXZ + Y 2 Z + {a, b, c, d^X, F) 3 = 0.