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Consider an ideal (ie. cannot stretch, and can bend freely) cable suspended from two points of equal height (that are closer together than the cable's length). The cable adopts the shape of a catenary (hyperbolic cosine).
Now suppose you hang a weight from the center of the cable. Does the cable's center of mass move up, down, or remain at the same height?