Abstract
A smooth curve on the plane can have a tangent which touches it tangentially at any number of points, but this is not true for generic curves. By a small perturbation of the curve one can always achieve that no straight line will be tangential at more than two points.
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Arnold, V.I. (1992). Smooth Surfaces and Their Projections. In: Catastrophe Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58124-3_12
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