Liber Abaci/Problems/Lion, Leopard and Bear/Historical Note

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Historical Note on The Lion, the Leopard and the Bear

As pointed out by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray in their The History of Mathematics: A Reader of $1987$, this is a "more gory version" of the cistern problem, as seen for example in the Greek Anthology Book $\text {XIV}$, no. $132$.

Instead of $3$ pipes pouring water into a pool at given rates, $3$ animals remove flesh from a sheep at different rates.


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