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The Impossible Number

Curious Cases

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Are You Trying to Make Sense of the Quadric Equations?

Cardano nearly got tangled up in a duel with Nicola Tartalia, who wanted to challenge him. Cardano said he wasn't doing that, but his student Ferrari took him on. And because Ferrari had worked out the solutions to the Quadric equations, and Tartalia hadn't,. Ferrari just seemed 30 questions that were just like Quadric, but he knew how to solve - and Tartalia didn't even turn up. I think next prime minister, right, what we should do is get them in Downing Street, give them Blackboards each, and just set them off and go. Wow, amazing. Whoa, whoa, did this happen? This really happened. It was really

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