Did Archimedes Write a Problem That Took 2,200 Years to Solve?

Holy cow

I just use the method I always use. Count the legs and divide by 4.

Hire a real artist. Or don’t be afraid to make rough doodles.

Teachers of Asia trying to write impossible problems to solve for kids:

It does make me wonder if writing math problems in poems and generally easier ways to process makes the questions much more widely understood? As in that one superpermutations issue which was solved when someone rephrased it as watching an anime series in some specific orders.

Annoys me to see ai gemerated art, but I guess the sad reality is that, eventually, the internet is going to fully ai content due to it's ease of use and constant evolution

Why, Archimedes? Just why??

“If thou art diligent and wise, O stranger”. Yea im not solving this sht

“…..Lost to history”

Or Archimedes was full of bull.

How about solving the problem of putting food on the table then figuring out this useless bullshit!!!

He would have received a letter back saying wrong number....

Archimedes Write a Problem That Took 2,200 Years to Solve...
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and we are in year 2024
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le maths now : Find the value of X

What if you put all those cows on the same spot i mean exact one spot combining there masses

Bet 78.86% of ppl stopped watching it before 8 minutes

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thanks man, for crediting Indian mathematicians, except for a few they don't get much credit.

Something went awry ... a perfect square cannot end in 8 ...

I'm not only confused but also tired of useless math and I don't see the poem as a good one

please dont use ai for historic representations

The answer is wrong. No way that many cows could fit on Sicily.

say no to veganism lol

ancient equivalent of a zip bomb

bro this world we live in, oh how i lust for the library of alexandria, how thy people there sang of the gods in the stars and of the green fields and distant seas beyond which other worlds

Well looking at the current time, 0… 0 cows since they all died with-in 2200 years, probably,

Wild to think McDonald’s goes through that much cattle each day?

But how many unwell fed bulls ?! See yah in 2000 years

the only problem is how Helios puts all those cows on Sicily
and how he feeds them

no he badly repeated something vedic but poorly like all of the western knoledge before christianity and islam destroyed civilization replacing it with a hell and a marketplace hell.

Would be funny if the answer was 0

I didn't understand the math in this video (this was recommended to me, i'm very weak with mathematical stuff) but this was very interesting nonetheless!

Certainly, this problem got milked for ages.

In before his solution is just “there are no cattle”

Question is did Archimedes solve his own problem or not?

Those AI cows are the stuff of nightmares

Archi needed to get out more. sheeesh.

ummm, I think you are missing a crucial point here, the place of this herd, it is in sicily, if the numbers are too large, it will be illogical to contain them all in sicily, so it is better to calculate the area of the island, and the area the that a cow/bull occupies, you get the rest i believe. in this you will need to consider few more variables, like the varying size/area of a cow and a bull or a baby cow, also considering all the ratios that you got and applying it to the different areas those cattle take up, the actual area of the island, since there are trees, houses, .. that would be illogical to not estimate and deduct it from the area. maybe Archamedes just wanted to know how his fellow mathematician thinks, more logically or more numbery/pure math.

Archimedes did all that just to be stabbed to death by a legionary, and all those works put together in Alexandra just to be burned by Caesar.

sounds like a real cowtastrophe…

imagine Archemedies ghost appears to tell you you're wrong

who needs so many cattle?

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And I thought my Math teachers were 'terrors' for their Math problems.

I think they are high

That’s a lot of milk

There’s one other hypothesis about who wrote this that I found but didn’t mention in the video: Some propose that the original problem can be traced back to Archimedes but the poem itself was written later.

Indeed, Archimedes was not much of a poet: some scholars that I read described Archimedes’ use of language as very simple. Suitable for expressing mathematical ideas but not poetry.