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Roman mathematics
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I have a friend Roy Lewis, whose PhD is still pending last I heard (University of Pennsylvania, Architecture)

It's on the Pantheon which has some rather odd dimensions. I don't want to steal his thunder, since it isn't published but basically they cheated. They chose dimensions that made their calcuations easier by canceling out remainders and other mathematical artifacts.

Travis
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Roman mathematics - by richard - 04-28-2003, 04:00 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by Dan Diffendale - 05-04-2003, 04:46 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by rekirts - 05-06-2003, 07:08 PM
abacus - by Anonymous - 06-16-2003, 07:47 AM
Re: abacus - by Caius Fabius - 06-16-2003, 08:10 AM
Re: abacus - by richard - 06-16-2003, 07:07 PM
Re: abacus - by Muzzaguchi - 07-06-2003, 11:51 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by richard - 07-07-2003, 08:25 AM
Re: Roman mathematics - by Muzzaguchi - 07-11-2003, 05:18 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by Tarbicus - 08-27-2006, 05:42 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by Jona Lendering - 08-27-2006, 06:22 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by tlclark - 08-31-2006, 06:03 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by Vedennius - 09-01-2006, 10:19 PM
Re: Roman mathematics - by tlclark - 09-04-2006, 02:05 AM

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