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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7882308&amp;tstart=0#7882308</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[The Middle Kingdom scribes also recorded weights and measures in hekat units by quotients and scaled remainders:<br><br><a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Aug 31, 2012 9:23:12 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7665686&amp;tstart=0#7665686</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[The ancient hieratic method anticipated modern finite arithmetic. Kevin Brown in 1995 reported consistent scribal patterns without breaking out]]></description>

        

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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7648660&amp;tstart=0#7648660</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[RMP 47 scaled 100 hekat to 6400/64 and multiplied<br><br>6400/64 by<br><br>1. 1/10 = 10 hekat<br><br>2. 1/20 = 5 hekat<br><br>3. 1/30 = 213/64 hekat]]></description>

        

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            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7641059&amp;tstart=0#7641059</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Over the years  two Egyptian math papers (on the EMLR and  RMP,) have been submitted to the British Museum(BM). Both papers received silence (on the]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 9, 2012 10:49:44 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7639731&amp;tstart=0#7639731</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[this paper explains RMP 41, 42, 43, 44 and much more ...<br><br><a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 6, 2012 5:34:10 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Scribes in RMP 41, 42, 43, MMP 10 and the Kahun Papyrus used of four area (A) and volume (V) formulas that replaced radius (R) by diameter (D/2) and]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 3, 2012 1:55:13 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7637558&amp;tstart=0#7637558</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Egyptian geometry seems to begin in RMP 41, 42, 43 and 44. Actually a longer view of Ahmes' geometry must be taken:<br><br><a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 3, 2012 1:13:03 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Written up in:<br><br><a href="http://ahmespapyrus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ahmespapyrus.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>e. Problems 39, 40,]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 23, 2011 9:24:11 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7632589&amp;tstart=0#7632589</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[RMP 35- 38, 66 solved hekat problems that defined a small hekat unity as 320 ro.<br><br>That meant small hekat unity 320/320 problems and answers can]]></description>

        

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            <title>Re: Egyptian fraction math only used  quotient and remainder statements</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7632143&amp;tstart=0#7632143</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[A note posted to two discussion groups ... a reply to the following may be necessary :<br><br>Thank you (Maria) for the post. Egyptian algebra has]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 21, 2011 3:35:19 PM</jf:creationDate>
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