Learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
demonstrate knowledge of how hieroglyphs were used to represent numbers and the nature of the problems that have survived
understand that Egyptian calculation was fundamentally additive. Operations such as doubling and halving being used for multiplication and division
appreciate the advanced understanding of mathematics in Ancient Egypt in relation to the manipulation of fractions
consider some views of the mathematics of Ancient Egypt in relation to that of the Babylonians.
OpenLearn - Egyptian mathematics
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