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Towards a Reconstruction of Archimedes' Stomachion

Reviel Netz, Fabio Acerbi, Nigel Wilson, 2004. SCIAMVS 5, 67-99.

Edits the Stomachion fragment from the palimpsest and argues that the treatise counted the ways the fourteen pieces can form a square.

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The published origin of the combinatorial reading.

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Netz, R., Acerbi, F., & Wilson, N. (2004). Towards a Reconstruction of Archimedes' Stomachion. SCIAMVS 5, 67-99. https://sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_05_067-099_Netz_Acerbi_Wilson.pdf
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