That's a lot of knowledge
When King Alfonso of Castile conquered the city of Toledo in 1085 A.D., instead of burning the library he hired a team of translators (led by Gerard of Cremona) to translate the ancient scrolls from Arabic.
Assuming there were 400,000 scrolls, each containing 50 modern pages of text and 5 significant ideas per page, how many ancient ideas were translated from the original Arabic?
The answer is 100000000.
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1 solution
400,000 scrolls, each with 250 ideas (5 per page, 50 pages each) yields (400,000 * 250) = 100,000,000 ideas.