# The Greatest Equation Ever...Sort Of...

If someone were to compile a list of the greatest mathematical equations ever, you'd see a lot of different equations. Some would say that all equations are beautiful and great. And there will be some top contenders like Euler's identity, $e^{i\pi} +1=0$ and Einstein's extremely popular $E=mc^2$. But today you'll see the greatest equation ever. They are actually a pair of parametric equations that look like this:

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What is so special about these equations, you say? Well, when plotted, the equations look like this:

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Whether you're a fan of Poke'mon or math [or both], you should enjoy this! This is easily the greatest thing I discovered while fiddling around with Woframalpha. Here are a couple of more equations plotted. I'm not adding the equations. That would take up a lot of space.

Alt text Mewtwo.

Alt text Blaziken

Alt text Charmander

If you have a lot of time to spare, you can go through all of them here. There are over $700$ of them.

And you don't have to be restricted to Poke'mon. For example, here's Batman:

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If you want, you can post your favorite curves on the comments section below. Have fun!

Note by Mursalin Habib
5 years, 9 months ago

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- 5 years, 9 months ago

Here's one for all you bronies: Sonic Rainboom

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- 5 years, 9 months ago

killll meeeeeeee

- 3 years, 11 months ago

watch '' steins gate'' scientist jake lai

- 3 years, 11 months ago

This is pure genius and mathematical art.

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Great! I have a question that how did you copy those parametric equations (but it's in latex) or is it just an image?

- 5 years, 9 months ago

I also have same question to Mursalin Habib

- 5 years, 9 months ago

What do you think?

Fortunately, I didn't type out the whole equation because that would have taken me half an hour [give or take] at least. It's an image. If you hover your mouse cursor over the image, you can see the alt text, "When will this end?". This was a reference to how big the equations are.

- 5 years, 9 months ago

https://i.imgur.com/4NY6Xf8.gif

- 5 years, 8 months ago

How did you find that link?

- 5 years, 8 months ago

I THINK YOU COPIED THIS EQATION FROM WOFRAMALPHA.............IAM RIGHT.......................

- 5 years, 8 months ago

Is there someone that sits down trying out hundreds of combinations of equations to get the right one or do you doodle on a software and it spits out an equation?

- 4 years, 9 months ago

I made this happy discovery a while back see
Graph Art

- 5 years, 9 months ago

how to make it?

- 5 years, 9 months ago

I LOVE POKEMON

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Where did you get these parametric equations from?

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Search up _ curve or __ equation to see if there exist a parametric equation of what you want. Do this on Wolfram Alpha

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Here's another one.

- 5 years, 9 months ago

How much time did you take to write the equation???

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Fortunately, it didn't take more than a minute. That's because I didn't type it out. It's an image.

- 5 years, 9 months ago

Wow, nice one! :) I like the PSY one by Pranav A. and the Batman! :) Really cool

- 5 years, 9 months ago

nice work

- 5 years, 9 months ago

I discovered Dilbert on WolframAlpha recently and put some fun curve links here http://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/wolframalpha/darth-vadar/

suddenly I can't see how to enter a link - something I know i have done before!

- 5 years, 8 months ago

superb (y)

- 5 years, 8 months ago

Oh my God?

- 5 years, 6 months ago

really cool and brilliant !!

- 5 years, 1 month ago

thats really cool

- 4 years, 10 months ago

awesome man

- 4 years, 10 months ago

@Aareyan Manzoor@Akshay Yadav You two might love this note!

- 3 years, 7 months ago

Loved it! Thanks Nihar for telling me about it!

- 3 years, 7 months ago

This note is very nice!

- 3 years, 7 months ago