The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems in this family use Acorn's own ARM...
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The Method of Mechanical Theorems (redirect from How Archimedes used infinitesimals)
surviving works of the ancient Greek polymath Archimedes. The Method takes the form of a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the chief librarian at the...
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Ellipsograph (redirect from Trammel of Archimedes)
trammel Trammel of Archimedes with three sliders Let C be the outer end of the rod, and A, B be the pivots of the sliders. Let AB and BC be the distances...
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Twin circles (redirect from Archimedes' circle)
of Archimedes. Cambridge University Press. Proposition 5 in the Book of Lemmas. Quote: "Let AB be the diameter of a semicircle, C any point on AB, and...
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Arbelos (section Archimedes' circles)
of Archimedes. Cambridge University Press. Proposition 4 in the Book of Lemmas. Quote: If AB be the diameter of a semicircle and N any point on AB, and...
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Hilbert's axioms (redirect from Archimedes' axiom)
a and A, that passes through A and does not intersect a. Axiom of Archimedes: If AB and CD are any segments then there exists a number n such that n segments...
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Area of a circle (section Archimedes's proof)
to 3.14159. One method of deriving this formula, which originated with Archimedes, involves viewing the circle as the limit of a sequence of regular polygons...
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Salinon (category Archimedes)
attributed to Archimedes. Let A, D, E, and B be four points on a line in the plane, in that order, with AD = EB. Let O be the bisector of segment AB (and of...
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In geometry, Archimedes' quadruplets are four congruent circles associated with an arbelos. Introduced by Frank Power in the summer of 1998, each have...
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circle constructed from an arbelos that has the same radius as each of Archimedes' twin circles. If the arbelos is normed such that the diameter of its...
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