106THE NORMAL ADVANCE.evident that he knew something of arithmetic andgeometric progressions.According to Gow the Egyptians gave to theworld the science...
not, however, insuch a developed state as did the Greeks. Theearly Egyptians measured a portion of land bythe number of days it took a&...
by the time it took to walk around it
or,by the amount of labor it took to cultivate it, andso on. It seems that the custom of measuringland areas by the extent of the&...
isosceles triangles, isoscelesparallel-trapeziums, and circles. He found thearea of an isosceles triangle whose equal sides were10 ruths, and whose base...
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kits:Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were going to St. Ives?From this brief reference to Ahmes manuscript it&...
when deciphered it may be found to antedateAhmes work.O. L. Kelso, Class of 79.