Project 4.10
The Egyptians had a very elaborate and well developed system for working with fractions. Write
a paper on Egyptian fractions.
George Berzsenyi, "Egyptian Fractions," Quantum, November/December 1994, p. 45. Follow up comment in The College
Mathematics Journal, March 1995, p. 165.
Richard Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs (New York: Dover Publications, 1982).
Spencer Hurd, "Egyptian Fractions: Ahmes to Fibonacci to Today," Mathematics Teacher, October 1991, pp. 561-568.
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