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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 basic concepts in mathematical analysis.
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By Original:FredrikVector:Leszek Krupinski - Own work based on: Archimedes pi.png: by Fredrik, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1250248
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