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Although some have said Archimedes, my opinion is that the formulas for area and perimeter of a rectangle were well known before his time (300BC). The Babylonians in 1500BC knew how to create Pythagorean triples, so I wouldn't be surprised if they knew this.
Archimedes did discover more difficult formulas, such as perimeter and area of a circle, and volume of a sphere and a cone.
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Who was the mathematician who discovered the formula for perimeter and area?
it was Archimedes
Formula of a perimeter?
The formula for finding out perimeters of shapes is length+length+height+height=perimeter or what else you can do is (lengthx2)+(heightx2)=PERIMETER
Formula for perimeter?
(2) Length + (2) Width = Perimeter
What is the formula for the perimeter of a rhombus?
Perimeter of a rhombus = 4 x (length of one side)(Notice how closely the formula resemblesthe one for the perimeter of a square.)
What is a perimeter formula?
There are many formulas for perimeter depending on what shape you are trying to find the perimeter of. The perimeter is the distance around a shape, so one formula to find perimeter is simply adding all the side lengths together.
