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forming a square. One form of play to which classical texts attest is the creation of different objects, animals, plants etc. by rearranging the pieces: an elephant, a tree, a barking dog, a ship, a sword, a tower etc. Another suggestion is that it exercised and developed memory skills in the young.
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and was played perhaps by several persons with pieces made of bone. It is not known which is older, Archimedes' geometrical investigation of the figure, or the game.
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J. Väterlein, Roma ludens (Heuremata - Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, Bd. 5), Amsterdam: Verlag B. R. Grüner bv 1976
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The number of different ways to arrange the parts of the Stomachions within a square were determined to be 17,152 by
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Ostomachion (after Suter; this version requires a lateral stretch by a factor of two to match that in the
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J. L. Heiberg, Archimedis opera omnia, vol. 2, pp. 420 ff., Leipzig: Teubner 1881
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Ostomachion figures mentioned by Ausonius and others (Bibliotheca Augustana)
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The universal book of mathematics: from Abracadabra to Zeno's paradoxes
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Ostomachion (after Suter): square reformed with some pieces turned over
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Kolata, Gina. "In Archimedes' Puzzle, a New Eureka Moment."
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Archimedes Palimpsest

Ostomachion Figures
ancient Greek geometry
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Archimedes
Arabic
Archimedes Palimpsest
ancient Greek
Byzantine
Greek
Ausonius
tangrams
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Fan Chung
Persi Diaconis
Susan P. Holmes
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