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How a 16th century pirate accidentally spawned a centuries-old math problem

By Scientific American
October 27, 2026 1 Min Read
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A question posed by Sir Walter Raleigh about cannonballs inadvertently led to a puzzle that mathematicians have been trying to solve for centuries

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