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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by fny on Saturday July 06, 2019 @09:44PM (#20373114)
That formula is just a Mathematica dump. If you read the paper, which is unfortunately paywalled, you'll see the result is the solution to a complex system of equations, which are far easier to digest than the result you see there.
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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by mkl on Saturday July 06, 2019 @10:41PM (#20373283)
This seems to be a version of it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792
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