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... PYTHAGOREANS . This sum - of - squares formula was practically equivalent to one known to ARCHIMEDES . Did contemporary Babylonians also use it ? Istanbul tablets seem originally to have had tables of c " , for n = 1 to 10 , for c = 9 ...
... PYTHAGOREANS . This sum - of - squares formula was practically equivalent to one known to ARCHIMEDES . Did contemporary Babylonians also use it ? Istanbul tablets seem originally to have had tables of c " , for n = 1 to 10 , for c = 9 ...
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... PYTHAGOREANS , With the Greeks , Arithmetic deal- ing with absolute numbers , or numbers in the abstract , was distinguished from Logistic [ 50 ] , the science dealing with ordinary arithmetical operations , and certain problems of ...
... PYTHAGOREANS , With the Greeks , Arithmetic deal- ing with absolute numbers , or numbers in the abstract , was distinguished from Logistic [ 50 ] , the science dealing with ordinary arithmetical operations , and certain problems of ...
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... PYTHAGOREANS were led to solutions of the equations x2 - 2y2 = ± 1 , in getting approximations to √2 . BRAHMAGUpta and BHASKARA [ 120 , 122 ] ( of the twelfth century ) gave the method for finding re- markable particular solutions of ...
... PYTHAGOREANS were led to solutions of the equations x2 - 2y2 = ± 1 , in getting approximations to √2 . BRAHMAGUpta and BHASKARA [ 120 , 122 ] ( of the twelfth century ) gave the method for finding re- markable particular solutions of ...
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History of Mathematics before the Seventeenth Century | 7 |
History of Mathematics after the Sixteenth Century | 35 |
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