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mmmmmmmike
·2 anni fa·discuss
Yeah, and even given that, there’s the question of how exactly it deforms from its flattened shape to make a spiral (and if this changes the area). I wouldn’t agree with the “correct” answer if the tape was very thick, but given that the answer is .005 cm, it’s probably thin enough that such an approximation is okay.
mmmmmmmike
·3 anni fa·discuss
I think that’s more about what he chose to publish. He was known for discovering things and keeping them to himself.

As I understand it, he actually first came to conjecture quadratic reciprocity after doing incredible amounts of calculation by hand and noticing the pattern.