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Who was a mathematician and writer?
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The numerals used by today’s mathematicians were developed in:
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Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?
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Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?
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Archimedes described it as a greater than 3 10/71 and less than 3 10/70. Today that number is called:
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What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?
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The ancient device was a predecessor of the modern calculating machine and is still widely used in japan and china. It consists of a set of beads on roads with each rod denoting place value. What is that instrument?
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Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing “Principia Mathematica” and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature.
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