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This Demonstration shows Nicomedes's method for constructing a cube root using a marked ruler. (Nicomedes was born about 270 BC.) This is actually the real principal cube root. Every nonzero number also has a pair of complex conjugate cube roots. Let ?A...
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner
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demonstrations.wolfram.com/NicomedessGeometricConstructionOfPrincipalCubeRoot
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project contains thousands of free interactive visualizations, with new entries added daily.
This Demonstration shows Nicomedes's method for constructing a cube root using a marked ruler. (Nicomedes was born about 270 BC.) This is actually the real principal cube root. Every nonzero number also has a pair of complex conjugate cube roots. Let ?A...
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner
Audio created with WolframTones:
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