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Finding the Average Mass of a Skittle (Using Cheap Kitchen Scales)
Ptolemy

Finding the Average Mass of a Skittle (Using Cheap Kitchen Scales)

On Skittles and the Precession of the Equinox.

  •  Justin Boden
Justin Boden Jul 28, 2018 • 3 min read
A Syntaxia Mathematica
A Syntaxia Miscellanica

A Syntaxia Mathematica

Ptolemy was not Arabic, but his legendary treatise is known to us as the Almagest, which is a transliteration of its Arabic title al-mjsty; literally, The Magestic.

  •  Justin Boden
Justin Boden May 1, 2018 • 4 min read
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