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Aa general plane quartic curve has 28 bitangents in the complex projective plane. However, as shown by Plücker (1839), the number of real bitangents of a quartic must be 28, 16, or a number less than 9. Plücker (Plücker 1839, Gray 1982) constructed the first as
\[(x+y)(y-x)(x-1)(x-3/2)-2(y^2+x(x-2))^2-k=0\]
for $k$ small and positive. Without mentioning its origin or significance, this curve with $k=0$ is termed the ampersand curve by Cundy and Rowlett (1989, p. 72).