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Mar 30, 2022 at 17:09 comment added David Hammen @StarfishPrime The answerer in that related answer explicitly says that he doesn't know the correct name, and that Bates et al. (which is a good basic reference) calls it Gauss's problem while others call it Lambert's problem. I've always seen it called Lambert's problem in a professional setting.
Mar 30, 2022 at 15:17 comment added BrendanLuke15 @StarfishPrime afaik they are the same
Mar 30, 2022 at 14:56 comment added Starfish Prime Some places (eg. this related answer) refer to Gauss' Problem, rather than Lambert's problem. Are they the same thing? And if so, have people really been arguing over the correct name for 200 years?
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Mar 30, 2022 at 14:19 history answered David Hammen CC BY-SA 4.0