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In this carefully researched study, the author examines Egyptian mathematics, demonstrating that although operations were limited in number, they were remarkably adaptable to a great many applications: solution of problems in direct and inverse proportion, linear equations of the first degree, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions.Gillings, Richard J. is the author of 'Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs' with ISBN 9780486243153 and ISBN 048624315X.
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