Anyone familiar with ancient Egyptian methods of division?
Didn't the ancient Egyptians use a stone adz for division?
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Sean K - Sep 13, 2005 1:53:04 pm PDT #7304 of 10002
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erikaj - Sep 13, 2005 1:53:59 pm PDT #7305 of 10002
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Aims - Sep 13, 2005 1:54:11 pm PDT #7306 of 10002
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Anyone familiar with ancient Egyptian methods of division?
There were these 4 races and they had this Stargate thingy......
Jars - Sep 13, 2005 1:56:33 pm PDT #7307 of 10002
I remember there being a very important papyrus concerning Egyptian mathematics. And that's about it. There were sums on it. And it had nothing to do with pyramids, but the pyramids were build almost to the golden ratio thingy.
Yeah, I know archaeology, not math. Sorry.
ETA - that Google gives me the Rhind papyrus. I think that's the one I was thinking of. Also
B L van der Waerden, Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations (New York, 1983).
Gus - Sep 13, 2005 2:03:51 pm PDT #7308 of 10002
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B L van der Waerden, Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations ...
They cooked dogs, right? Divided by an adz?
Gus - Sep 13, 2005 2:08:44 pm PDT #7309 of 10002
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Gus - Sep 13, 2005 2:20:32 pm PDT #7310 of 10002
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Megan E. - Sep 13, 2005 2:23:57 pm PDT #7311 of 10002
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Sean K - Sep 13, 2005 2:25:36 pm PDT #7312 of 10002
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What's on tonight, Gus.
Jars - Sep 13, 2005 2:26:16 pm PDT #7313 of 10002
Ooh, is that the one with that guy who was in Dark Angel? The pretty one? How is it? Pretty? Pretty bad?