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Students' Work: Hyperosculating Spheres

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In general there exists a unique hyperosculating sphere at each point of a (sufficiently often) differentiable curve in three dimensional Euclidean space. Here a helical curve was chosen for illustration.
(Courtesy of Boris Odehnal.)

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