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Catenary? How many of us remember Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematics luminary, who described properties of catenary, and was so proud of it he had one put on his tombstone?
Scientific American: Connections: Tick Tock: August 1998
... This arcane catenary matter had originally been the obsession of a Dutch noodler
named Simon Stevin, who in 1585 also had the novel idea of decimal coinage. No ...
http://www.sciam.com/1998/0898issue/0898connections.html
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