Archimedes’ Cattle: A 2,000-Year Math Mystery

Intellectually Curious
13/10/2024 6 min
Archimedes’ Cattle: A 2,000-Year Math Mystery

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From an ancient cattle puzzle hidden in verse to modern supercomputers, this episode untangles Archimedes’ cattle problem: color ratios, geometric patterns, and a smallest solution with hundreds of thousands of digits. Explore the history, the elegant math, and how technology finally cracked a puzzle that stumped scholars for centuries.Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

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