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| era = [[17th-century philosophy]] ...to sit in as a silent on-looker at the gatherings of some of the greatest mathematicians and scientists in Europe—such as [[Gilles de Roberval|Roberval]], [[Desargu ...

...ang|el-Latn|Epaphaí}}'', "Tangencies"); this work has been lost, but a 4th-century report of his results by [[Pappus of Alexandria]] has survived. Three given In the 16th century, [[Adriaan van Roomen]] solved the problem using intersecting [[hyperbola]] ...

...tric lengths (real numbers), but the algorithm was generalized in the 19th century to other types of numbers, such as [[Gaussian integer]]s and [[polynomial]] ...ethods for improving the algorithm's efficiency were developed in the 20th century. ...