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| has gloss | eng: The Reisner Papyrus is one of the most basic of the hieratic mathematical texts. It was found in 1904 by George Reisner. It dates to the 1800 BCE period and was translated close to its historical form of remainder arithmetic in association with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Gillings and other scholars accepted 100 year old views of this document, with several of the views being incomplete and misleading. Two of the documents, reported in Tables 22.2 and 22.2, a detail a division by 10 method, a method that also appears in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. Labor efficiencies were monitored by applying this method. For example, how deep did 10 workmen dig in one day as calculated in the Reisner Papyrus, and by Ahmes 150 years later? In addition, the methods used in the Reisner and RMP to convert vulgar fractions to unit fraction series look similar to the conversion methods used in the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll. |
| lexicalization | eng: Reisner Papyrus |
| instance of | c/Egyptian fractions |
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