Elevator small talk: a genus-4 curve has exactly 120 tritangent planes
littmath · x · 2026-09-22
Researcher littmath shares a math-department moment: a colleague casually asked him in the elevator how many tritangent planes a canonically embedded curve of genus four has. His follow-up tweet gives the answer: 120.
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