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A catenary with scale a is the graph of the function f(x; a) = a cosh(x/a) – a. The x and the a are separated by a semicolon rather than a comma to imply that we think of x as the variable and a as a parameter. This graph passes through the origin, i.e. for any […]The post Solving for the catenary scale parameter first appeared on John D. Cook.