MATH 274 Midterm: MATH274 BOYLE-M FALL2007 0101 MID EXAM

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Mathematics
• Course: MATH 274
• Professor: All

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Math 274 fall 2007 reading/homework exam 1: use the egyptian method to compute 14 17, express 4 2. 9 in the babylonian (sexigesimal) form: what is a gnomon, what was the biblical approximation to , in an old babylonian tablet (circa 1700 b. c. ) there is a problem: a beam of length. The upper end has slipped down a distance 6. Solve the problem and conclude that those babylonians had knowledge of a certain mathematical result: solve problem 3 of chapter 3 of the chinese jiuzhang (circa 200 b. c. ): three people, who have 560, 350 and 180 coins respectively are required to pay a total tax of 100 coins in proportion to their wealth. How much does each pay? (you may give an answer in fractions. : 1. What is the relevance of this to our considerations: what is a pythagorean triple, we saw strong evidence that a general babylonian method (circa 1700 b. c. ) for gener-