Talk:Cubic plane curve

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. Geometry guy 01:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

The recent edit replacing Weierstrass form by elliptic functions actually is over-specific (assumes base field is the complex numbers); it misses out cases of importance, e.g. over a finite field in cryptology. Charles Matthews 16:48, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Not sure about the inflection points being 9, over a field of characteristic 3. Charles Matthews 20:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

"It is easily proved that a plane curve of the third degree (or cubic) possesses nine points of inflexion, ...", "Space and Time" by Emile Borel, p. 90 --JKSellers (talk) 08:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)