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Arbelos logo #10101) Geometric shape
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Arbelos

Arbelos logo #21000 In geometry, an arbelos is a plane region bounded by a semicircle of diameter 1, connected at the corners to semicircles of diameters r and (1 − r), all rising above a common baseline. Archimedes is believed to be the first mathematician to study its mathematical properties, as it appears in propositions four through eight of his Book of Lemmas....
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arbelos logo #21160The figure bounded by three semicircles AB, BC, and AC, where ABC is a straight line. Archimedes (about 250 BC) called it an 'arbelos' – the Greek word for a knife of the same shape used by shoemakers to cut and trim leather – and wrote about it in his Liber assumptorum (Book of Lemmas)....
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