How to Integrate with an AX? The Surprising Power of Planimeters – Visually Explained!
Mathologer · Science & Maths · 35 min · 73 thousand views · published 2025-06-07
Today’s mission is to reveal a surprisingly simple trick that lets you use any old ax(e) to calculate the area of plane shapes. More broadly
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