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Direct linkDavis, Paul; Raianu, Serban – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2007
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a planimeter is "an instrument for measuring the area of a plane figure by tracing its boundary line". Even without knowing how a planimeter works, it is clear from the definition that the idea behind it is that one can compute the area of a figure just by "walking" on the boundary. For someone who has…
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