The Archimedes Number

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Archimedes's famous Cattle Problem had a truly epic solution. Featuring Alex Bellos.

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So You Think You've Got Problems by Alex Bellos

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The Cattle Problem by AH Bell: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2968125.pdf

The Cattle Problem on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem