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            <title>Re: Rhind papyrus problem about harmonic mean</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Pat,<br><br>Additional background to Ahmes' 2/n table,  pesu, arithmetic and harmonic mean problems can be found on:<br><br><a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Oct 22, 2012 5:55:03 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Rhind papyrus problem about harmonic mean</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[A broad discussion of the pesu (pefsu) is found on-line written by Claggett, 1999, <br><br>1. <a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Oct 18, 2012 7:50:56 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Rhind papyrus problem about harmonic mean</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs. page 131 offers a harmonic mean discussion of RMP 76, with a few sentences: <br><br>"Now the pesu]]></description>

        

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            <title>Rhind papyrus problem about harmonic mean</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[I have been told that problem 76 of the papyrus is about making loaves from different substances for which the solution is the harmonic mean.  I have]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Oct 18, 2012 3:07:44 PM</jf:creationDate>
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