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For questions about the quantitative study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, and change, carried out by investigating patterns

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What is the origin of the cut and weigh method of integration, is it Galileo's?

I recently heard a story of a clever method of approximating an integral which, instead of using numerical techniques, relied on physically drawing out the graph of a function, cutting it out, and we …
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