Snowflake (heraldry) important winter sport ("e.g." Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, together with a pair of skis). The tincture is often argent (silver). Snowflake (heraldry) The snowflake or "snow crystal", is a charge in heraldry. The display in coats of arms is following a strictly stylized form of the natural six pointed crystal form of a snowflake. In older heraldic literature, this charge is not to be seen. In modern heraldry, the snowflake is most used in northern Europe, in arms in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it alludes to the meteorological features of the lands. Otherwise, it also is a symbol for winter, and
Five points determine a conic the answer is given in terms of the multiset coefficient, more familiarly the binomial coefficient, or more elegantly the rising factorial, as: This is via the analogous analysis of the Veronese map: "k" points in general position impose "k" independent linear conditions on a variety (because the Veronese map is biregular), and the number of monomials of degree "d" in formula_18 variables ("n"-dimensional projective space has formula_18 homogeneous coordinates) is formula_20 from which 1 is subtracted because of projectivization: multiplying a polynomial by a constant does not change its zeros. In the above formula, the number of points "k" is