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^ "The Tragedy of Osiris," Egyptian Myth and Legend, Donald Mackenzie, chapter 2. 1907. ^ "The Tradition of Seven Lean Years in Egypt," The Ancient Near East Volume 1, James B. Pritchard, ed., page 24–27. Princeton University Press, 1958. ^ "The Tradition of Seven Lean Years in Egypt," The Ancient Near East Volume 1, James B. Pritchard, ed ...
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, [1] [2] an ancient Egyptian mathematical work, includes a mathematical table for converting rational numbers of the form 2/n into Egyptian fractions (sums of distinct unit fractions), the form the Egyptians used to write fractional numbers. The text describes the representation of 50 rational numbers.
Thus πδ represents an 84° arc, and the ∠′ after it means one-half, so that πδ∠′ means 84 + 1 ⁄ 2 °. In the next column we see π μα γ , meaning 80 + 41 / 60 + 3 / 60² . That is the length of the chord corresponding to an arc of 84 + 1 ⁄ 2 ° when the diameter of the circle is 120.
Smaller units of length Unit Greek name Equal to Modern equivalent Description daktylos δάκτυλος: 19.3 mm (0.76 in) finger kondylos κόνδυλος
In base 10, ten different digits 0, ..., 9 are used and the position of a digit is used to signify the power of ten that the digit is to be multiplied with, as in 304 = 3×100 + 0×10 + 4×1 or more precisely 3×10 2 + 0×10 1 + 4×10 0. Zero, which is not needed in the other systems, is of crucial importance here, in order to be able to "skip ...
Every terminating decimal representation can be written as a decimal fraction, a fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 (e.g. 1.585 = 1585 / 1000 ); it may also be written as a ratio of the form k / 2 n ·5 m (e.g. 1.585 = 317 / 2 3 ·5 2 ).
It can be named by its Schläfli symbol {4,3 8}, being composed of 3 9-cubes around each 8-face. It is sometimes called a dekeract , a portmanteau of tesseract (the 4-cube ) and deka- for ten (dimensions) in Greek , It can also be called an icosaronnon or icosa-10-tope as a 10 dimensional polytope , constructed from 20 regular facets .
Henryk Łowmiański, however, theorised that Svarog was a Slavic sky god and personification of daylight sky itself, possibly a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *Dyēus Ph 2 ter, while Svarozhits and solar Dazhbog were the same deity, though, he concluded, two other aspects of Svarozhits also existed: fiery Svarozhits, as in the Sun ...