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Note: Eureka means "I have found it," and President Ronald
Reagan went to Eureka
College in Illinois. When the King of Syracuse asked the Greek
mathematician
Archimedes whether he could figure the percentage of silver in his gold
crown, at
first Archimedes couldn't think of how to solve the problem. When an idea
dawned on him, as to how he could solve it, he said, " I have found it."
The answer had to do with the difference of displacement of equal amounts of
the
two metals in water.
They Voted the Other Day in Russia

Published June 15, 1971

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