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History of Egyptian Fractions: May 2006
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History of Egyptian Fractions. The History of Egyptian fractions will be reported from two points of view. First, beginning with the oldest texts, Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematics will be parsed. Second, the newest text, the Liber Abaci, will be parsed showing that Egyptian fraction arithmetic was continuously used for over 3,200 years. Wednesday, May 10, 2006. The second document is the Rhind Mathematical Papyru. In 1650 BCE, and a hard-to-decode 2/n table. The decoded 2/n table. Two subjects that co...
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RMP 36 and the 2/n table: April 2010
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RMP 36 and the 2/n table. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. RMP 36 and the 2/n table. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. RMP) is an Ancient Egyptian hieratic text that has been dated to 1650 BCE. The papyrus has been housed in the British Museum since 1863. The math text contains a series of equalities called the "2/n table" which represents about a third of the papyrus. The remainder of the papyrus contains 87 loosely grouped arithmetic problems. Missing scribal data by applying additive suggestions. Methods by c...
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Liber Abaci: January 2007
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Thursday, January 04, 2007. Liber Abaci and seven Egyptian fraction methods. One 20th century theme limited LA discussions to base 10 decimals foundations related to algorithms. The base 10 decimal theme, a subject that flowered in the late 1500's, minimally considered 3,200 year older Egyptian fraction arithmetic that did not rely on algorithms. As a projection, the 500 page Sigler translation leads to meta math exposures of historical threads on which the medieval version of the fundamental theorem of ...
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Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll: January 2007
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Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll. Monday, January 08, 2007. Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll. The EMLR dates to the 1850 BC to 2000 BCE period of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. The leather scroll, housed in the British Museum from 1864 to the present, was not softened and unrolled until 1927. Scholars in the 1927 under reported the majority of the text's arithmetical relationships. To EMLR and the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP) 2/n table calculations. Were updated in a 2011 paper. Several EMLR and RMP.
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Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll: Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
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Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll. Monday, January 08, 2007. Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll. The EMLR dates to the 1850 BC to 2000 BCE period of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. The leather scroll, housed in the British Museum from 1864 to the present, was not softened and unrolled until 1927. Scholars in the 1927 under reported the majority of the text's arithmetical relationships. To EMLR and the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP) 2/n table calculations. Were updated in a 2011 paper. Several EMLR and RMP.
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New and Old Ahmes Papyrus classifications,: January 2009
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New and Old Ahmes Papyrus classifications,. Thursday, January 8, 2009. Ahmes Papyrus, New and Old Classifications. Old Kingdom hieroglyphic numbers were defined by one, two, three, or more symbols in a cursive algorithm. Egyptian math was based 10. Nearby Babylonian math was base 60. Also used a cursive algorithm. Both cultures rounded off cursive infinite series numbers. The Egyptian algorithm was binary and rounded off to 6-terms. The modified Middle Kingdom (MK). 1/p, 2/p, ., n/p rational numbers ...
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History of Egyptian Fractions: Egyptian Fractions
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History of Egyptian Fractions. The History of Egyptian fractions will be reported from two points of view. First, beginning with the oldest texts, Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematics will be parsed. Second, the newest text, the Liber Abaci, will be parsed showing that Egyptian fraction arithmetic was continuously used for over 3,200 years. Wednesday, May 10, 2006. The second document is the Rhind Mathematical Papyru. In 1650 BCE, and a hard-to-decode 2/n table. The decoded 2/n table. Two subjects that co...
