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Anonymous Wed Apr 27 01:24:49 2016 No.8033546 [View]
File: 968 KB, 2662x1322, 53.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

53 now. It has a diagram, but is plagued by the same issues as 51 and 52.

"This simple (charitable!) paraphrase: "Given an isosceles triangle of altitude 14 and base 9/2, divided into sectors per the figure, find the two bases and the three areas of the sectors."

Ans: pic related.

My big personal takeaway from this recreation is that the Egyptians were just fine about manipulating fractions, but really sucked hard at geometry.

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