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Archimedes: Pi
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Archimedes is a European specialty pharmaceutical company with an established commercial organisation in the UK, France and Germany and a portfolio of products marketed to specialist prescribers. Archimedes is growing its commercial presence through the acquisition of pharmaceutical companies and brands in Europe, and through partnering with companies to drive sales of their innovative products. In parallel, Archimedes is developing a robust pipeline of novel near and longer-term products to support its commercial organisation.
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Archimedes probably ... invented a machine to measure distance, an odometer. A cart was built with wheels that turned four hundred times in one mile. A pin on the wheel would hit a 400-tooth gear, so it turned once for every mile. This gear would then make a small stone fall into a cup. At the end of a journey one could count the number of stones in the cup to find the distance.
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There are some hints that Archimedes may have been pursuing geometric theorems by studying the Stomachion. In his essay, he mentions nearly complete puzzles. He may have been referring to puzzles in which all the pieces but one have been placed, leaving a hole, Holmes says. The hole would have the same area as the remaining piece, so Archimedes may have been using the puzzle to calculate areas of complicated shapes.
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The brainchild of Kaiser Permanente's Dr. Eddy, Archimedes was begun in the early '90s with support from Kaiser Permanente's Southern California Region. The project was later brought under the national umbrella at Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute, where it lives today. The Care Management Institute is a unique, pioneering institution with a mandate to drive, fund, and catalyze evidence-based care management activities throughout Kaiser Permanente.
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In his Measurement of the Circle Archimedes found an approximation value for pi by approximating the circumference of the unit circle by the perimeter of inscribed and cirumscribed polygons. Using polygons with 96 sides he found
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