The method of exhaustion was an integral-like limiting process used by Archimedes to compute the area and volume of two-dimensional lamina and three-dimensional solids.
Method of Exhaustion
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Method of Exhaustion." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MethodofExhaustion.html