Acient Mathematics
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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 mathematica ....
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.... the units—10s, 100s, and so forth—in the numbers to be added.
Multiplication was based on successive doublings, and division was based on
the inverse of this process.
The Egyptians used sums of unit fractions (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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