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Latus rectum Definition 9Latus rectum of hyperbola is a line segment perpendicular to
the transverse axis through any of the foci and whose end points lie on the hyperbola. As
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in ellipse, it is easy to show that the length of the latus rectum in hyperbola is .
Two standard forms of hyperbola
