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Plot the pedal curve of a given curve with respect to a given point. The pedal curve of a curve with respect to a point is the curve whose points are the closest to on the tangents of .

Contributed by: Michael Trott (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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— parameters of the curve — point for the pedal curve construction

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