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Summary Of: Method of exhaustion

The method of exhaustion typically required a form of proof by contradiction... The method of exhaustion is seen as a precursor to the methods of... subsumed the method of exhaustion so that it is no longer explicitly used to solve problems... used the method of exhaustion as a way to calculate... Use of the method of exhaustion also led to the successful evaluation of a geometric series...

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