MATH 274 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, Perfect Number, Euclidean Algorithm
10 Jan 2019
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Math 274 fall 2007 reading/homework exam 1: express the fraction 3/5 in a form the ancient egyptians might have used, the ancient babylonians only used fractions with a nite sexigesimal expansion. Aristophanes in his play the birds referred to the impossibility of squaring a circle in a play. Theorem. (b) a quantity and its 1/7 added together become 19. this, with di erent numbers, is a problem solved in the rhind papyrus (circa 1650 b. c. ) by the method of false position .
