Re: [math-fun] Math PuzzlesX Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus

I always thought the St. Ives problem was a trick question: "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives . . .." While walking, someone one meets is usually going the opposite direction. So only "I" -- one person -- was going to St. Ives. (At least that's how it was once explained to me.) --Dan << . . . Scholars have found a few errors in the problems, and Ahmes even wrote an incorrect number in his St. Ives problem. But over all, the equations are considered remarkably accurate.

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