**Math of Egyptian fractions (old web pre-AI)**

> arithmetic of ancient egypt Egyptian Fractions You may find it amazing that fractions, as we know them, barely existed, for the european civilization, until the 17'th century. Even in the 19th century, a method called russian peasant fractions, was the same used by the Europeans since they met the African, and the Egyptians at least since 4000BC in Egypt. As the method was found on several papyrus, we now call this t...

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