[BITList] How it was done in the old days....

[John Feltham]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus>

And…

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/r/rhind_mathematical_papyrus.aspx <http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/r/rhind_mathematical_papyrus.aspx>


And…

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html <http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html>

From which comes…

Problem 79. There are seven houses; in each house there are seven cats; each cat kills seven mice; each mouse has eaten seven grains of barley; each grain would have produced seven hekat. What is the sum of all the enumerated things.


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egypt_algebra.html#rhind79 <http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egypt_algebra.html#rhind79>

Or…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qg5mc <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qg5mc>

An audio explanation



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