Journal article
Finding the center of a circular starting line in an ancient Greek stadium
SIAM review, v 39(4), pp 745-754
01 Dec 1997
Abstract
Two methods for finding the center and radius of a circular starting line of a racetrack in an ancient Greek stadium are presented and compared. The first is amethod employed by the archaeologists who surveyed the starting line and the second is a least-squares method leading to a maximum-likelihood circle. We showthat the first method yields a circle whose radius is somewhat longer than the radius determined by the least-squares method and propose reasons for this difference.
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- Title
- Finding the center of a circular starting line in an ancient Greek stadium
- Creators
- Chris Rorres - Drexel UniversityDavid Romano - University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- SIAM review, v 39(4), pp 745-754
- Publisher
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000071000200009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0031331818
- Other Identifier
- 991019168040404721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Mathematics, Applied