Area of parabolic segment archimedes biography
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A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line.
When was archimedes born
What is the area of a parabolic segment?
Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola
proved by Archimedes (– BCE), one of his more interesting was the determination of the area of the parabolic segment, that portion of a parabola cut off by a chord.
Archimedes' contribution in mathematics
It states that the area of a parabolic segment (a region bound by a parabola and a line) is 4/3 that of a certain inscribed triangle.