 | Henry Percy Smith - English language - 1883 - 542 pages
...from OI''r. coustume. Duplication of the cube. The Delian problem, viz. to find by elementary geometry the edge of a cube whose volume is double that of a given cube. Under the conditions the problem is insoluble. It can be solved to any degree of nearness by extracting... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - English language - 1883 - 564 pages
...from O.Fr. coustunic. Duplication of the cube. The Delian problem, viz. to find by elementary geometry the edge of a cube whose volume is double that of a given cube. Under the conditions the problem is insoluble. It can be solved to any degree of nearness by extracting... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - Mathematics - 1901 - 586 pages
...Hippocrates turned his attention was the duplication of the cube, that is, the determination of the side of a cube whose volume is double that of a given cube. This problem WAS known in ancient times as the Delian problem, in consequence of a legend that the... | |
 | Elmer Adelbert Lyman - Geometry - 1908 - 364 pages
...three famous problems of antiquity. The other two are the duplication of the cube, ie the determination of a cube whose volume is double that of a given cube, and the squaring of a circle, ie the determination of a square equal in area to the area of a given... | |
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... the edge of a cube whose volume is double that of a given cube... 