A cylinder has two parallel circular bases. Archimedes proved a sphere has exactly 2/3 the volume of its circumscribed cylinder.
Archimedes considered his greatest mathematical achievement to be discovering that a sphere inscribed within a right circular cylinder has both a volume and a surface area equal to exactly two-thirds (2/3) that of the cylinder.
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