Bean curve
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The bean curve is a quartic plane curve
Quartic plane curve
A quartic plane curve is a plane curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a quartic equation:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0....

 with the equation:

The bean curve is a plane algebraic curve
Algebraic curve
In algebraic geometry, an algebraic curve is an algebraic variety of dimension one. The theory of these curves in general was quite fully developed in the nineteenth century, after many particular examples had been considered, starting with circles and other conic sections.- Plane algebraic curves...

 of genus
Geometric genus
In algebraic geometry, the geometric genus is a basic birational invariant pg of algebraic varieties and complex manifolds.-Definition:...

 zero. It has one singularity
Mathematical singularity
In mathematics, a singularity is in general a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point of an exceptional set where it fails to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as differentiability...

at the origin, an ordinary triple point.
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