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Oracle for Rent

An oracle ordered a prince to build a sacred building, whose space would be 400 cubits, the length being 6 cubits more than the width, and the width 3 cubits more than the height.  Find the dimensions of the building.

Ars Magna, Gerolama Cardano, 1545

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"Oracle for Rent," Convergence (April 2004)