Source: Futility Closet
The Chinese mathematician Liu Hui offered this technique in a text composed about 500 years after Euclid. We’re on the mainland, and we want to find the height of a mountain on a distant island without crossing the sea.
Liu Hui showed that this can be accomplished by setting up two poles of a known height in a line with the mountain …
… and by appealing…
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