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Horse and monkey saddles
classical
The horse saddle rises in two directions and falls in two. The monkey saddle has room for a tail: three ways up and three ways down around a flat point. The real part of zⁿ gives a saddle with n ridges.
z = Re (x + iy)ⁿ: x² − y², x³ − 3xy²
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