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Problems from Another Time

Individual problems from throughout mathematics history, as well as articles that include problem sets for students.

Curve sketching, tangent lines, and optimization, explored via interactive applets
In a right triangle, let the perpendicular be 5 and the sum of the base and hypotenuse 25. Find the lengths of the base and hypotenuse
A general formed his men into a square, that is, an equal number in rank and file, and he found that he had an excess of 59 men.

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