30 May
2010
30 May
'10
8:56 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I don't know how the Romans translated his works,
particularly his
calculation of the number of grains of sand that would fit into the
universe was around 10**64.
Smart people, those Greeks.
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/hmendel/Ancient
Mathematics/Archimedes/SandReckoner/Ch.1/Ch1.html
--Chuck