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Daily Digest Archive for January 25, 2005

Q: (Initially posted January 19, 2005) FROM STUDENT MEMBER JEWEL IN MA
What are some of the mathematics symbols and equations used in ancient Egypt and still used today?

A: FROM MENTOR JOAN LUSK IN RI
These links can get you started, from zero (and the ancient Egyptians had a symbol for zero). the second link contains many other links, some of which I found to be broken... but there are still some good leads there

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Egyptians.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egypt.html
Enjoy!



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