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With respect to geometry, the commentators are unanimous: ... Eventually, the Indians came to use a dot for zero, which was picked up by the Arabs. Through the Arabs, the number zero reached European civilisation after 800 AD. The ancient Egyptians, as with the ancient Greeks and Romans, had no use for zero.
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www.touregypt.net/featurestories/numbers.htm
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Agricola's work summed up what the ancient Greek and Roman authors had written about minerals, and included a list of a hundred ancient authors whose works Agricola had consulted -- but Agricola was not afraid to contradict the ancients' opinions if they did not fit with his own experience.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agricola.html
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The ancient Egyptians were extremely advanced in geometry and may have influenced the Greek mathematicians such as Pythagoras. The building of the pyramids obviously required a high level of knowledge in the subject. The papyrus known as th...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071017163...
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Boys learned reading and writing, but they also learned gymnastics and swimming, medicine, arithmetic and geometry. ... To get, say, three hundred and forty five the Ancient Egyptians would use three snares, four heel bones and five vertical strokes. But they usually wrote them in the opposite order to us, the units,
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www.barrygray.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Egypt/Maths.html
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This is a difficult question to answer since geometry has been around in one form or another as long as there has been written history. The Egyptians were making use of geometry to build pyramids even in prehistoric times.
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www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/questionCorner/geomorigin....
www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/questionCorner/geomorigin.html
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WHAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS KNEW...; AND MODERN SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN ... Reputed to be a master of the lost energy science of Ancient Egypt, the Architect has been brought to the Centre to test his ability to create specific energy effects through the use of shapes, sounds, colors, and movements. ... Sacred Geometry...
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www.vesica.org/what_egyptians_knew.html
www.vesica.org/what_egyptians_knew.html
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Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt; Did the ancient Egyptians use some lost technology to machine the stones of their pyramids and temples? Christopher Dunn presents his evidence. ... The Emerald Tablets Cited Records Vault and Giza Geometry; An advanced race built the Giza complex, this site says, of which Thoth was...
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paranormal.about.com/cs/ancientegypt/
paranormal.about.com/cs/ancientegypt/
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they used it to find equations and triangles, mostly for triangles, such as the p theorem, which is why they built pyramids... a good website to see this: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091118184...
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Egyptian mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egyptian mathematics refers to the style and methods of mathematics performed in Ancient Egypt. Egyptian multiplication and division were performed by doubling and halving (respectively) a known numb...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mathematics
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