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The power of Archimedean spirals: is there an algebraic characterization of Archimedean numbers?

I asked this question over a year ago on Math.StackExchange but I didn't get an answer. In his famous treatise On spirals, Archimedes used a spiral to square the circle and trisect an angle. There are ...
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