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THE arithmetical questions treated by Diophantus of Alexandria, who flourished about the year 250 A.D., included such problems as the solution of the equations
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B., W. History of the Theory of Numbers . Nature 111, 11 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111011b0
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