Egyptian geometry
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egyptian-geometry-182-10337188
title:
Egyptian geometry
text:
Egyptian geometry refers to geometry as it was developed and used in Ancient Egypt. Their geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve the layout and ownership of farmland, which was flooded annually by the Nile river. We only have a limited number of problems from ancient Egypt that concern geometry. Geometric problems appear in both the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (MMP) and in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP). The examples demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians knew how to c
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Geometry emanating from Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_geometry
date created:
2010-10-09T15:18:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T14:02:02Z
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