Finding the center of a circular starting line in an ancient greek stadium

SIAM Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 745-754

  Rorres, Chris ^a   Romano, David Gilman ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Circles; Degree; History of mathematics; Least squares; Racetrack; Stadium; Starting line

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STADIUMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CIRCULAR STARTING LINE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031331818     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144596305727     Document Type: Article

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