Doubling the Cube/Intersection of Parabola and Hyperbola/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Doubling the Cube by Intersection of Parabola and Hyperbola
The technique for doubling the cube by finding the intersection of a parabola and a hyperbola was discovered by Menaechmus.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $1 \cdotp 25992 \, 10498 \, 94873 \, 16476 \ldots$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $1 \cdotp 25992 \, 10498 \, 94873 \, 16476 \ldots$