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

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.

That’s a lot of milk

I think they are high

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

Me gusyan las vacas, ¡Son muy monas!

who needs so many cattle?

imagine Archemedies ghost appears to tell you you're wrong

sounds like a real cowtastrophe…

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.

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.

Archi needed to get out more. sheeesh.

Those AI cows are the stuff of nightmares

Question is did Archimedes solve his own problem or not?

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

Certainly, this problem got milked for ages.

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!

Would be funny if the answer was 0

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.

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

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

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

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

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

ancient equivalent of a zip bomb

say no to veganism lol

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

please dont use ai for historic representations

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

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

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

I love you 💕😚

Bet 78.86% of ppl stopped watching it before 8 minutes

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

le maths now : Find the value of X

Archimedes Write a Problem That Took 2,200 Years to Solve...
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and we are in year 2024
GIGACHAD
IMPRESIVE

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

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

“…..Lost to history”

Or Archimedes was full of bull.

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

Why, Archimedes? Just why??

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

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.

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

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

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

Holy cow