Persona 5 X answer to „Archimedes’s cattle problem was posed around 250 BC. How many years did it take to get solved?”
P5X will test your knowledge with classroom questions. Some of them are really tricky. So, let’s answer “Archimedes’s cattle problem was posed around 250 BC. How many years did it take to get solved?".
Free-to-play spin-off of a popular jRPG series Persona, Persona 5: The Phantom X, was released yesterday. While due to its gacha roots, the game differs a little bit from the main branch, fans of the series will still find here characteristic elements. P5X is in the spirit of the franchise and offers some well-known features like classroom questions and turned-based combat. In this guide we will focus on the first of these and answer "Archimedes’s cattle problem was posed around 250 BC. How many years did it take to get solved?" question.
Answer to "Archimedes’s cattle problem was posed around 250 BC. How many years did it take to get solved?" in P5X
If you are familiar with the series, you probably know that questions are an important part of the gameplay. You can encounter them in Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden or Perona 3 Reload. In Developers also implemented this mechanic in Persona 5 X. It means that you will encounter some quizzes during your classes. Let’s look at one of them.
- Archimedes’s cattle problem was posed around 250 B.C. How many years did it take to get solved?
The answer is 2000 years. This question isn’t obvious. As you might expect, this problem was described by Archimedes. We can read in Wikipedia that it “involves computing the number of cattle in a herd of the sun god [Helios] from a given set of restrictions”. The puzzle was unknown until 1773, when an ancient Greek manuscript was discovered in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
After that discovery, mathematicians were looking for a solution to this problem. Finally, 100 years later, Carl Ernst August Amthor found the answer. This is how, 2000 years later, we learned the solution to the question asked by Archimedes.
If you want to read more about classroom questions, you should visit our guide.
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