An ancient Egyptian problem and its innovative arithmetic solution

MaRDI QIDQ3581964zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Milo Gardner

Publication date 2 September 2010

zbMATH Keywords

measuresproto-number theoryweights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) Models of arithmetic and set theory (03C62)

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