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Acient Mathematics - Term Papers

Acient Mathematics

The earliest records of advanced, organized mathematics date back
to the ancient Mesopotamian country of Babylonia and to Egypt of the 3rd
millennium BC. There mathematics was dominated by arithmetic, with an
emphasis on measurement and calculation in geometry and with no trace of
later mathematical concepts such as axioms or proofs.
The earliest Egyptian texts, composed about 1800 BC, reveal a
decimal numeration system with separate symbols for the successive powers
of 10 (1, 10, 100, and so forth), just as in the system used by the Romans.
Numbers were represented by writing down the symbol for 1, 10, 100, and so
on as many times as the unit was in a given number. For example, the ...

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(a), supplemented by the
fraction B, to express all other fractions. For example, the fraction E was
the sum of the fractions 3 and ...

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Added: 12/30/2006 07:43:49 AM
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