Quote: some of the numbers named by Archimedes exceed the grains of sand that would fill the universe

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I will try to show you by means … me … , some exceed not only the number of … but also that of a mass equal in … [p. 523] The following results can now be proved: … [p. 526] we can prove further that a sphere … number of grains of sand less than 10,000,000 … [or ... 10^63].   Google-1   Google-2

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