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A note on the cattle problem of Archimedes

✍ Scribed by Peter Schreiber

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 149 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 0315-0860
DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1993.1025

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✦ Synopsis

The famous cattle problem, an ancient mathematical riddle ascribed to Archimedes, is unsolvable. The known "solutions" contradict one of the conditions given in the wording of the problem.

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