And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, written in hieratic script. Circa 1650 B.C.
somebody went to a lot of work, looks to me like an engineering paper figuring out certain angles for constructing a large object, but with a seventh grade math education i am spitballing here. the red annotated equations/subjects make it look like a reference table of sorts, might be part of a large library for making or referencing blue prints, that would be work drawings or some-such table, see its in well defied sections, could be say for a job-site foreman or main contractor of sorts.
If interpreted correctly it proves that the answer is 41
ReplyDeleteThat's 'Before Calculus' right?
ReplyDeleteMichael in Nelson
Stunning.
ReplyDeleteHas an interpretation been published?
Must have been doing his "Gozintoos" like Jethro
ReplyDeleteSadly, it doesn't look any different ( to me) than contemporary math.
ReplyDeleteI'm still lost......
Perhaps its the math to build something that will last thousands of years unlike today's buildings.
ReplyDeleteI got 13. Prove me wrong
ReplyDeletesomebody went to a lot of work, looks to me like an engineering paper figuring out certain angles for constructing a large object, but with a seventh grade math education i am spitballing here. the red annotated equations/subjects make it look like a reference table of sorts, might be part of a large library for making or referencing blue prints, that would be work drawings or some-such table, see its in well defied sections, could be say for a job-site foreman or main contractor of sorts.
ReplyDeleteso is this the same as the blond lady in the meme is trying to figure out?
ReplyDeleteWhat did they use as a writing instrument back then?
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