Milo Gardner

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Any other examples of abstract math found in Egyptain texts?

Three Egyptian texts come to mind, the Akhmim Wooden Tablet, 1950 BCE, the Kahun Papyrus,18000 BCE and the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, 1650 BCE, discussed by:...

25 April 2016 9,154 3 View

Was the inverse proportion pesu that basis of Archimedes square root?

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...

14 April 2016 8,821 1 View

Why and how did Hindu-Arabic numerals modify Egyptian fraction number representations?

How many are aware that Greeks ciphered numerals onto Ionian and Doric alphabets while scaling rational numbers n/p by LCM m/m such that mn/mp was concisely converted to a unit fraction series by...

07 August 2014 9,109 3 View

The first Egyptian math document to be read in the modern era was the Berlin Papyrus?

Does any disagree with the 1900 decoding of the text that reported an inverse proportion was used for solutions to two second degree equations as well as a pesu unit that exactly measured the...

25 June 2014 1,601 8 View

How did Greek arithmetic give rise to Liber Abaci arithmetic?

See above.

07 June 2014 7,153 10 View

How did Egyptians convert 8/17 to a concise unit fraction series?

Bruce Friedman suggested that general Egyptian scribal method(s) that converted vulgar fractions considered 8/17(30/30) = 240/510 = (170 + 34 + 30 + 6) = 1/3 + 1/15 + 1/17 + 1/85, a series...

27 January 2014 9,629 1 View

How did Egyptians in 1900 BCE convert 1/n like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 ,,, and 1/p like 1/7, 1/11 and 1/3 to a unit fraction series?

The British Museum unrolled a 26 problem hieratic text in 1927, and missed the abstract arithmetic used therein, such as 1/8 = 1/25 + 1/15 + 1/75 + 1/200 that scaled 1/8(25/25) = (8 + 17)/200 =...

24 January 2014 6,008 7 View

Were the Mayan Madrid and Dresden calendar round texts built by LCMs?

The Madrid Codex has long been known as a Mayan calendar round text. Cyrus Thomas suggested in 1900 that Madrid quotients be scaled by 360. The following link scales Dresden Codex quotients by 400...

06 June 2013 1,379 15 View