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Menaechmus used parabolas to attack which classical problem?
ATrisecting an angle
BFinding the value of pi
CDoubling the cube
DSquaring the circle
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Doubling the cube
Menaechmus discovered a way to solve the doubling of the cube with parabolas, in the 4th century BC.
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