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Have you ever felt that you’ve been cheated, but have no proof? What can you do about it? It’s what King Hiero II of Syracuse who reigned between 263 and 215 BCE was wondering. He’d commissioned a crown of pure gold to be fashioned into a laurel leaf wreath to be a votive crown for a temple. He’d supplied the goldsmith with the exact weight of gold he’d asked for, and the crown weighed exactly that when tested, but there were the reports that the goldsmith had subtracted some of the gold and substituted an equivalent weight of silver and had kept the gold that was left over for himself? How could the king determine the truth? How is possible to ascertain the composition of the crown without destroying it. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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