Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Nov 2015)

Unaccountable Numbers

  • Fabio Acerbi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 4
pp. 902 – 926

Abstract

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The corrupt sentence in which Diophantus describes the unknown (Arithm. 1.6) can be cured with a slight emendation that recognizes the wide and non-technical uses of ἄλογος.