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    Archimedes of Syracuse (/ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz/ AR-kim-EE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor...
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  • Archimedes' principle (also spelled Archimedes's principle) states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether...
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    The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest hydraulic machines...
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    The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems in this family use Acorn's own ARM...
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    force is proportional to the pressure difference, and (as explained by Archimedes' principle) is equivalent to the weight of the fluid that would otherwise...
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    spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. The term Archimedean...
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    The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains...
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    Archimedes is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Fenestellidae. The first use of the term "Archimedes" in relation to this genus was in 1838...
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  • Look up Archimedes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece. Archimedes may also refer...
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    of Archimedes (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγη, romanized: harpágē, lit. 'snatcher'; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to...
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  • to 3.14159. One method of deriving this formula, which originated with Archimedes, involves viewing the circle as the limit of a sequence of regular polygons...
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    Archimedes is purported to have invented a large scale solar furnace, sometimes described as a heat ray, and used it to burn attacking Roman ships during...
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  • Pi (redirect from Archimedes constant)
    π for practical computations. Around 250 BC, the Greek mathematician Archimedes created an algorithm to approximate π with arbitrary accuracy. In the...
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    Montes Archimedes is a mountain range on the Moon. It is named after the nearby crater Archimedes, which in turn is named after the ancient Greek mathematician...
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    an exclamation attributed to Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. Eureka comes from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka) 'I have found (it)'...
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    the Archimedean property, named after the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse, is a property held by some algebraic structures, such as...
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    Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium. Its diameter is 81 km. The diameter of Archimedes is the largest of...
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  • Archimedes "Archie" Francisco Trajano (1956–1977) was a Filipino student activist during the 1972–1986 martial law regime in the Philippines. His death...
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  • The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning...
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    Free and open-source software portal Archimedes – "The Open CAD" – (also called Arquimedes) is a computer-aided design (CAD) program developed with direct...
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  • Archimedes is a liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace...
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  • Archimedes Group is a Tel Aviv-based private intelligence agency that has operated political campaigns using social media since 2017. The current CEO of...
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  • Several ships have been named Archimedes for Archimedes: Archimedes (1797) was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the...
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  • by a and A, that passes through A and does not intersect a. Axiom of Archimedes: If AB and CD are any segments then there exists a number n such that...
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    Archimedes Geo3D is a software package for dynamic geometry in three dimensions. It was released in Germany in March 2006 and won a German government award...
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    Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) (category Archimedes)
    During the siege, the city was protected by weapons developed by Archimedes. Archimedes, the prominent inventor and polymath, was slain at the conclusion...
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  • Archimedes Ridge [el. 1,585 ft (483 m)] is a ridge in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. Archimedes Ridge was so named because it resembles...
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  • In viscous fluid dynamics, the Archimedes number (Ar), is a dimensionless number used to determine the motion of fluids due to density differences, named...
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    Archimedes Leonidas Attilio Patti (July 21, 1913 – April 23, 1998) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and an Office of Strategic Services...
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  • Arthur, prompting Merlin to appoint Archimedes as Arthur's teacher. Merlin transforms Arthur into a sparrow and Archimedes teaches him how to fly. Soon after...
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