Degree obstruction to the twisted cubic being a complete intersection

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The twisted cubic is a nondegenerate projective variety, so every hypersurface containing it has degree at least two. At least two hypersurfaces are needed to cut out a curve in , making their degree product at least four rather than the curve's degree three.

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