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Topic: Egypttian and Greek sqare root
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Milo Gardner

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Egypttian and Greek sqare root
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 5:36 PM
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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:

http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/EgyptianAndGreekSquareRoot.html

Comments will be appreciated. Several unresolved issues are running around in my head, Changes need to be made, hopefully not serious ones.

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