The Figure-Eight Slope in WxMaxima

A tangent line on a figure-eight.

I learned recently how to do implicit differentiation, which led me to the fun exercise of getting the slope of a point on a “figure-eight”, and showing the steps using WxMaxima. Here is a PDF print:

Here is the WxMaxima file (compressed):

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