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The epispiral is a plane curve with polar equation

\( \ r=a \sec{n\theta}. \)

There are n sections if n is odd and 2n if n is even.

It is the polar or circle inversion of the rose curve.
See also

Logarithmic spiral
Rose (mathematics)

References

J. Dennis Lawrence (1972). A catalog of special plane curves. Dover Publications. p. 192. ISBN 0-486-60288-5.

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Epispiral