[BookPage]

vice article on same thing submitted 2 days ago and discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22413526

Edit: And apparently discussed even more 2 weeks prior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22301091

[dr_dshiv]

And discussed in 1692, by Bernoulli, Mersenne and Kircher

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1979HisSc..17..258K...