Archimedes' Cattle Problem/Mistake

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Source Work

1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers:

The Dictionary
$4,729,494$


1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.):

The Dictionary
$4,729,494$


Mistake

... in this case the total number of cattle is a number of $206,545$ digits, starting $7766 \ldots$


According to other sources, the number in fact starts $7760271 \ldots$


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