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  2. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - Wikipedia

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    7 divided by 10 yields 2/3 + 1/30. After these two tables, the papyrus records 91 problems altogether, which have been designated by moderns as problems (or numbers) 1–87, including four other items which have been designated as problems 7B, 59B, 61B and 82B. Problems 17, 7B and 8–40 are concerned with arithmetic and elementary algebra.

  3. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    A common, vulgar, [n 1] or simple fraction (examples: ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ and ⁠ 17 / 3 ⁠) consists of an integer numerator, displayed above a line (or before a slash like 1 ⁄ 2), and a non-zero integer denominator, displayed below (or after) that line. If these integers are positive, then the numerator represents a number of equal parts, and ...

  4. Division (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes this remainder is added to the quotient as a fractional part, so 10 / 3 is equal to ⁠3 + 1 / 3 ⁠ or 3.33..., but in the context of integer division, where numbers have no fractional part, the remainder is kept separately (or exceptionally, discarded or rounded). [5] When the remainder is kept as a fraction, it leads to a rational ...

  5. Unit fraction - Wikipedia

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    Slices of approximately 1/8 of a pizza. A unit fraction is a positive fraction with one as its numerator, 1/ n.It is the multiplicative inverse (reciprocal) of the denominator of the fraction, which must be a positive natural number.

  6. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    For example, in duodecimal, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ = 0.6, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ = 0.4, ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ = 0.3 and ⁠ 1 / 6 ⁠ = 0.2 all terminate; ⁠ 1 / 5 ⁠ = 0. 2497 repeats with period length 4, in contrast with the equivalent decimal expansion of 0.2; ⁠ 1 / 7 ⁠ = 0. 186A35 has period 6 in duodecimal, just as it does in decimal. If b is an integer base ...

  7. Number line - Wikipedia

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    The order of the natural numbers shown on the number line. A number line is a graphical representation of a straight line that serves as spatial representation of numbers, usually graduated like a ruler with a particular origin point representing the number zero and evenly spaced marks in either direction representing integers, imagined to extend infinitely.

  8. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    [50] [13] [49] The conditional probability of winning by switching is ⁠ 1/3 / 1/3 + 1/6 ⁠, which is ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠. [2] The conditional probability table below shows how 300 cases, in all of which the player initially chooses door 1, would be split up, on average, according to the location of the car and the choice of door to open by the host.

  9. Egyptian fraction - Wikipedia

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    For instance, Egyptian fractions can help in dividing food or other objects into equal shares. [1] For example, if one wants to divide 5 pizzas equally among 8 diners, the Egyptian fraction = + means that each diner gets half a pizza plus another eighth of a pizza, for example by splitting 4 pizzas into 8 halves, and the remaining pizza into 8 ...