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Putnam 1974 A5

  • Session A

Consider the two mutually tangent parabolas y=x2y=x^2 and y=−x2y=-x^2 . The upper parabola rolls without slipping around the fixed lower parabola. Find the locus of the focus of the moving parabola.

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