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Egyptian Arithmetic Puzzles
by G R Burgin
The ancient Egyptians were possibly the first civilisation to practice the scientific arts. Where the Egyptians really excelled was in medicine and applied mathematics. They must have had an advanced understanding of the mathematics because their exploits in engineering, astronomy and administration would not have been possible without it. The Egyptians had a decimal system using mainly seven different symbols as shown below. The conventions for reading and writing numbers is quite simple; the higher number is always written in front of the lower number and where there is more than one row of numbers the reader should start at the top. With this brief introduction, solve the following arithmetic problems and state your answers in the ancient Egyptian characters.
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© G R Burgin 2009