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Egyptian Tables Question
Icy North Started conversation Feb 13, 2018
Someone's posted a question to h2g2 Feedback about this entry - can anyone oblige?
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Egyptian Tables Question
Dr Hell Posted Mar 26, 2021
Wow - that is a late replay - sorry... The use of clay tables and examples are relatively easy to find in the web. The specific use of tables with areas (and hence the quadratic formula) I took from various sources. One easy to find is this: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egypt_geometry.html
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