One correction, if I might...
fmetrol Wrote:
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> In the absents of any real documentary evidence
> for Egyptian mathematics prior to the Middle
> Kingdom scholars have argued for a long
> developmental period where all knowledge was
> passed down orally from adept to pupil. Since in
> Pre-dynastic times a decimal system existed, the
> slow development is thought to have extended over
> a period of about 1500 years ( 3600- 2040 BC)
They had a base 10 system... not a decimal system. Decimal systems would mean that they were representing numbers as "1.75" and not 1 3/4ths. They used fractions, and a base 10... not a decimal system.
