# Convergence articles

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A person has a circular yard that is 150 ft. in diameter, and wishes a walk of equal width made round it within the fence...
The author compares Greek ladder, continued fraction, and Newton's Method approximations, noting that the Greek ladder easily gives both of Archimedes' famous bounds.
When knowing the sum of their ages along with another equation, determine how old a father and son are.
The story of Gerbert, who became Pope Sylvester II in 999, and his mathematics.
This is a description of the crosswalk from Convergence to Loci Convergence.
I owe a man the following notes: one of $800 due May 16; one of$660 due on July 1; one of $940 due Sept. 29. He wishes to exchange them for two notes of$1200 each and wants one to fall due June 1. When should the other be due?
A new history of mathematics text which asks lots of questions about the history and the mathematics.
What will the diameter of a sphere be, when its volume and surface area are expressed by the same number?
Request from the editors.
An argument that the teaching of elementary integration should better reflect its historical development