SOLUTION: How is x*z=5 a hyperbola in R3? Or does this just look like a typo.

Question 835980: How is x*z=5 a hyperbola in R3? Or does this just look like a typo.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

It's a hyperbolic cylinder asymptotically approaching
the xy and yz planes. Its trace (cross section) in the 
xz-plane is a hyperbola with the z-axis and x-axis as 
its asymptotes.

Edwin

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