Quick, does 23/67 equal 33/97? A mathematician's secret from Euclid to today

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.120.10.867zbMATH Open1358.11012OpenAlexW2403419718MaRDI QIDQ5404046FDOQ5404046

Authors: David Pengelley 

Publication date: 20 March 2014

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.10.867

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Multiplicative structure; Euclidean algorithm; greatest common divisors (11A05) General histories, source books (01A05)

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