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27 November 2017

  • curprev 10:3010:30, 27 November 2017Admin talk contribs 1,012 bytes +1,012 Nonfiction: Archimedes used the method of exhaustion to compute the area inside a circle by finding the area of regular polygons with more and more sides. This was an early but informal example of a limit, one of the most ba...