Appendix B Using the parabolic approximation for fc(y) greatly simplifies the mathematical calculation, the error is small and the results are very similar to the catenary case. The procedure for calculating the points for the shadows are the same as in Appendix A but now fc(y) is the parabolic approximation (eq. (2)), i.e.,
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