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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

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How to Draw a Right Triangle

The method was described by an ancient egyptian historian, i think, hero of alexandria. The researchers found out that actually they must have had to use other methodsd and then in this paper,. They describe these, these other methods. And of course, they can't know for sure, but there's a they presented a bunch of plausible alternatives. For me, the most plausible is that what they yo must have done is to use something that is similar to an iron site on a rifle. Effectively, we treat with three sticks.

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