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On the Cattle Problem of Archimedes

✍ Scribed by William C. Waterhouse

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 88 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0315-0860
DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1995.1017

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✦ Synopsis

There is no serious reason to believe that the "Cattle problem" ascribed to Archimedes is unsolvable.

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