@article {MATHEDUC.06140171, author = {Stephenson, Paul}, title = {The 4-square computer.}, year = {2012}, journal = {SYMmetryplus}, number = {47}, issn = {1464-7060}, pages = {11-13}, publisher = {The Mathematical Association (MA), Leicester}, abstract = {From the introduction: The ancients asserted, though it was not proved until 1770, that you can write every positive integer as the sum of no more than 4 squares. We can use this result and two more known to the ancients: the angle in a semicircle is a right angle and Pythagoras' theorem, to design an analog computer to partition every number into squares.}, msc2010 = {F60xx (G40xx)}, identifier = {2013b.00552}, }