The flipped elliptic is the name of the coolest skateboarding trick known to man, except it isn't known to man. This is a super cool name for a super cool nonexistent trick.
Bro 1: "Bro, I just landed the flipped elliptic on my skateboard yesterday!"
Bro 2: "Oh yeah? What did it it look like?"
Bro 1: "I don't know but I totally landed it!"
Bro 2: "Oh yeah? What did it it look like?"
Bro 1: "I don't know but I totally landed it!"
by petey did it June 18, 2011
The person at the gym who can run forever on an elliptical, but loses balance just walking by a treadmill.
Ben is an elliptical track star, he can't even walk by a treadmill without losing his balance and falling over.
by AllTheNamesAreTaken46220 March 15, 2008
by Johnny Vee December 10, 2007
(NOT AN ELLIPSE!!!) Elliptic curve: y*y = x*x*x + A*x + B for some A and B. Seemingly simple enough (if you've gotten past high school algebra at least). However, if you make some special points, you can create a whole new number system. And there are so many of these (just change your values for A and B).
Elliptic curve cryptography are based on the idea that multiplying by, say, 329857349875 isn't *that* hard... but dividing by it is HELL. It's a reliable one-way function, which is pretty important for encryption! Another application is factorization, but I'm not too sure on that one so ask google ig
by mb6fbhsphdrcb April 23, 2025