LANTERN

In mathematics, the Schwarz lantern is a polyhedral approximation to a cylinder, used as a pathological example of the difficulty of defining the area of a smooth (curved) surface as the limit of the areas of polyhedra.

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The rediscovery of an ethereal fairy lantern brightly illuminates their mysterious past

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Where once were black boxes, new LANTERN illuminates