Image: Galileo's Shortest Time Curve Conjecture
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Description: Galileo’s conjecture is that “The shortest time of all will be that of its fall along the arc ADB [of a quarter circle] and similar properties are to be understood as holding for all lesser arcs taken upward from the lowest limit B.” This diagram helps to explain the conjecture in Wikipedia.
Title: Galileo's Shortest Time Curve Conjecture
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