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arxiv: 1602.05279 · v2 · pith:JDLX2BLYnew · submitted 2016-02-17 · 🧮 math.CO

Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola and minimal covers

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The generalization of Archimedes strategy to obtain the area of a parabolic segment leads to combinatorial formulas involving minimal covers of sets. These, in turn, are conjecturally related to $q$-binomial coefficients.

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