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Mathcad and Problems in Literature

ValeryOchkov
24-Ruby IV

Mathcad and Problems in Literature

It is one my Mathcad-hobby - to find and solve problems from novels. One of them:

One Problem from the book:

Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

(see - http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/2000010ah.htm )

"Here, Professor Aronnax, are the different dimensions of this boat now transporting you. It's a very long cylinder with conical ends. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar, a shape already adopted in London for several projects of the same kind...

"These two dimensions allow you to obtain, via a simple calculation, the surface area and volume of the Nautilus. Its surface area totals 1,011.45 square meters, its volume 1,507.2 cubic meters..."

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