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            <description><![CDATA[Peter,<br><br>To fairly decode Egyptian square root, RMP 69 and the Berlin Papyrus need to be translated into modern arithmetic statements.<br><br><a]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Responding to the interesting square root question, Egyptian fraction arithmetic was based on positive rational numbers scaled to concise unit]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Milo, can you tell us how the Egyptians handled square roots?<br>]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[To study something good, parse Ahmes conflicting 400-hekat and 100-hekat units <br><br><a]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[You should always study something good... wether it is boring or not... you never know... it could be helpful sometime in your future.<br>]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Bibliography<br><br>1<br>    Richard Gillings, "Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs", pages 176-180, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1972<br>2<br>    John]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[C. A confirmation of the Kahun Papyrus arithmetic progression method must include discussions of RMP 40 and RMP 64. In RMP 64 Ahmes asked 10 men to]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[B. In 1987, Egyptologist Gay Robins, and Charles Shute, wrote a book onm the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP). Five years later Egyptologist John]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Arithmetic progressions birthed arithmetic proportions in the Kahun Papyrus:<br><br><a]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Arithmetic and geometric proportions offer twoi of the highest forms of Egyptian fraction math. Arithmetic proportions are included in"<br><br><a]]></description>

        

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