MATH 274 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Euclidean Algorithm, Parallel Postulate, Perfect Number
10 Jan 2019
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Math 274 fall 2007 exam 1, answers: express the fraction 3/5 in a form the ancient egyptians might have used. 10: the ancient babylonians only used fractions with a nite sexigesimal expansion. Answer m/n has a nite sexigesimal fraction if no prime numbers other than 2, 3 or 5 divide n. If m and n have greatest common divisor 1 (i. e. , the fraction m/n is in lowest terms), then m/n has a nite sexigesimal fraction if and only if no prime numbers other than. Zeno. (this paradox is titled the arrow . : (a) state the famous parallel postulate of euclid, as he formulated it. Through a given point outside a given line, exactly one line may be constructed parallel to the given line: in about 413 b. c. Aristophanes in his play the birds referred to the impossibility of squaring a circle in a play.
