Techniques of fractions in ancient Egypt and Greece

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(82)90001-5zbMath0485.01002OpenAlexW4212946074WikidataQ56227637 ScholiaQ56227637MaRDI QIDQ1164035

Wilbur R. Knorr

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(82)90001-5

zbMATH Keywords

division algorithmcomputing techniquesEgyptian computations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of Europe (pre-Greek, etc.) (01A15)

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• Some comments on R. J. Gillings' analysis of the \(2/n\) table in the Rhind papyrus
• Response to ``Some comments on R. J. Gillings' analysis of the \(2/n\) table in the Rhind papyrus
• The (2:n) Table in the Rhind Papyrus
• The Part in Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
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