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Lituus

Roger Cotes and Colin Maclaurin, 1722

Roger Cotes named it in 1722 after the lituus, the crook-topped staff of the Roman augurs. Its angle varies inversely with the square of the radius, so it winds in toward the centre while its outer arm straightens toward the x axis. Each circle about the centre cuts from it a sector of the same area, shaded in the drawing.

r = a/√θ

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