English example sentences with "quadrature"

As π is transcendental, the quadrature of a circle - a classical problem in geometry - is impossible.
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The story that Anaxagoras wrote a treatise on perspective as applied to scene-painting is most improbable; and the statement that he composed a mathematical work dealing with the quadrature of the circle is due to misunderstanding of an expression in Plutarch.
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