Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes/Problems/27 - De Civitate Quadrangula/Historical Note

== Historical Note on by : Problem $27$: De Civitate Quadrangula == The Egyptian Formula for Area of Quadrilateral is being used to estimate the total area of the town.

makes no indication of actually trying to fit the houses into the town.

Because the shape of the town is not actually rectangular, the exercise is not trivial.

reports that he has tried, but cannot actually get any more than $519$ in, and that is by turning the houses in either direction.