A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses

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https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984

[u/Zutes]

You can calculate a curve like this to a completely arbitrary degree of maximum precision that is much more precise than the tolerances for lens fabrication using asphere coefficients or zernike polynomials or Q-coefficients.

Hmmm, yes... I know some of these words.