The Sand Reckoner Of Archimedes by Archimedes
A concise mathematical treatise that devises a method for naming and handling extremely large numbers beyond the limits of contemporary Greek numeration, develops notation and procedures to express successive orders of magnitude, and applies this system to compute an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that could fill the cosmos as then conceived, illustrating the ideas with geometric arguments and numerical examples.
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- Ancient greek
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- Psammites
- The Sand-Reckoner
- Ψαμμίτης
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