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Over 2,200 years ago, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth, and his math was almost totally accurate
Impressive, right?
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
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