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A note on the cattle problem of Archimedes (English)
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20 December 1993
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The cattle problem, which was already famous in antiquity, is contained in an epigram which was sent by Archimedes to Eratosthenes with instructions to submit it to the Alexandrian mathematicians. The problem may quite well originate from Archimedes. The known ``solutions'', however, contradict one of the conditions given in the wording of the problem: In each sort of cattle there are many more bulls than cows. This condition obviously fails for the brown cattle.
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