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During a highly publicized competition, Fior struggled to solve the problems posed by Tartaglia, while Tartaglia swiftly resolved all of Fior's cubic challenges. His triumph instantaneously secured his reputation, and, in the aftermath, he sought to popularize the methods he had discovered for solving cubic equations. However, he faced a recurrent issue: the efficient methods he had devised were not translatable into modern algebraic notation, leading him to formulate his solutions through poetic verse instead.