After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved
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After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved

A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the other, now think if you could position […] The post After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved appeared first on Good News Network.