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Re: The Alexanders*

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 22 Dec 13 10:15 PM | 55 view(s)
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hi doma,

has it occurred to you that that is a translation?

and also that archimedes was a greek and radius is a latin word?

perhaps the original greek used half the diameter. i doubt he used a word like radius from the ignorant romans.

diameter is a greek word, though!

the etymological folks may not be as dumb as you think they are.


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Re: The Alexanders*
By: faul in ALEA
Sun, 22 Dec 13 4:13 PM 		Msg. 15013 of 54959

Hi Alea....

Strange then that 2000 years earlier in Archimedes
treatise "Measurement of a circle" the opening
statement is....


"The area of any circle is equal to a right-angled triangle in which one of the sides about the right angle is equal to the radius, and the other to the circumference, of the circle."

17th century my assSmile

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