... of five. As being the part which completed the row into one series of the number indicated, the Egyptian r-fraction was necessarily a fraction with, as we should say, unity as the numerator. To the Egyptian mind it would have seemed nonsense and self-contradictor... Ancient Egyptian Science: Ancient Egyptian mathematics - 24. lappuse autors: Marshall Clagett - 1989 - 863 lapas Pilnskats -
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