The Berlin Papyrus (BP) was first published in Germany in 1862, opened the mathematical world of ancient Egypt for the first time. A 1900 claim by a German scholar was that the imagery of the hieratic was the same one used for square root. Does anyone wish to attempt refute this claim, based on a full reading of the BP and links to later Egyptian texts:

https://www.academia.edu/24371866/Berlin_Papyrus_and_second_degree_equations

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