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            <title>Re: Egyptian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Premise: Egyptian numeration scaled rational numbers to concise unit fraction series in a wide range of applications. The inverse proportion aspect]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 13, 2012 8:17:34 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[D. CONCLUSION: Finite square root was commonly written in vulgar and unit fractions from 2050 BCE to 1454 CE. The 3,500 year life of the method]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 8, 2012 10:05:32 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Premise: Egyptian numeration has been parsed in ways that scaled rational numbers.The inverse proportion aspect of Egyptian. Greek and medieval]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 7, 2012 2:17:49 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egyptian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[2. Based on Parker's Coptic reporting of the approximate square root of 200 as (14 + 1/7) it s clear that a 'quick and dirty' method was available to]]></description>

        

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            <title>Re: Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[On Skype yesterday Bruce F. looked up the square root of 200 in a Demotic text, reported by Parker, as(14 + 1/7)^2<br><br>The (P  + R)*2 form meant]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 3, 2012 8:37:58 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[D. MIDDLE KINGDOM MIDDLE ERA SQUARE ROOT Gillings called his view of the Egyptian method an Aha problem, not disclosing precise scribal link to the]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 2, 2012 5:30:57 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[The proposed scaled aspect of the square root of 6, and most numbers less than 1,000 need not have used 6/6 at any time. Updates to the Planetmath]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Dec 1, 2012 9:17:46 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[It should be stressed that the scribal method for taking the 200 BCE square root of 164 began that estimated<br><br>(12 + 4/5)^2 , a step that was]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Nov 30, 2012 6:22:40 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
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            <description><![CDATA[Working with someone this write up was found in one week..<br><br><a href="http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/EgyptianAndGreekSquareRoot.html"]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Nov 30, 2012 8:17:59 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Egypttian and Greek sqare root</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7928986&amp;tstart=0#7928986</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[About one week ago, on this forum, I was asked to write up Egyptian square. A few days of research and two days of writing has produced:<br><br><a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Nov 27, 2012 5:36:18 PM</jf:creationDate>
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