History Research

Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2018

  • The Exact Computation of the Decompositions of the Recto Table of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

    Carlos Dorce

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2018
    Pages: 33-49
    Received: 1 December 2018
    Accepted: 21 December 2018
    Published: 14 February 2019
    DOI: 10.11648/j.history.20180602.11
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    Abstract: The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus contains in the fragment known as the Recto Table the division of 2 by all the odd integer numbers from 3 to 101. This table hides the secret of how it was computed by its ancient Egyptian author because, till now, there is not a set of established known assumptions which allow compute all its values without any excep... Show More