Egyptian Unit Fractions
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Description: Articles concerning the mathematics of Ancient Egypt, from "MathPages."
The representation of rational numbers as sums of unit fractions dates back to the time of ancient Egypt. Today this subject survives mainly as a source of mathematical puzzles and problems in abstract number theory, but the subject is also of historical and anthropological interest, since it sheds light on the thought processes of people who lived at the very beginning of recorded human history. The discussion below focuses primarily on speculation as to the methods that may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to construct their tables. Articles concerning the purely number-theoretic aspects of unit fractions are contained in the Number Theory section of this site.
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