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= Cissoid of Diocles
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The Cissoid of Diocles is a notable mathematical curve from ancient Greek geometry, named after the Greek mathematician Diocles, who studied it around the 2nd century BCE. It is defined in the context of a specific geometrical construction involving a circle and lines, and it has applications in the creation of certain types of solutions for cubic equations.