Why A Nile Tadpole Means A Great Deal

The Times (UK) ^ | 11-22-2007 | George Hart

[blam]

Thanks to Renfield for the article.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[TexGuy]

From the picture, I think the vulture is trying to tell us that the optometrist on a skiing vacation.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Monkey Face]

WHAT?

And I thought I had trouble with modern math....

*sheesh*

[Monkey Face]

WHAT?

And I thought I had trouble with modern math....

*sheesh*

[Monkey Face]

ARGGHH!!

[patton]

I have been wondering since the sixties what a cubit is.

“Riiiiight. What’s a cubit?”

[bert]

For a detailed description see The Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Thompkins.

In addition to that described, there were more formal and accurate definitions of the cubit used in work describing extreme accuracy.

[patton]

Hey, um, bert? It was a reference to an old Bill Cosby skit...

humor, y’know?

[bert]

....humor, y’know?...

Read the book anyway...you’ll like it ;)

[patton]

Noah

[SunkenCiv]

Well, it looks like you’ve got multiplication down. ;’)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If the above numbers were written under or beside the “mouth” sign, meaning a “part”, then that indicated fractions. However, in measuring bushels of wheat, often used for payment in Egypt which had no coinage, a specialist system of indicating numerals was used. This took the sign of the human eye with the markings of a falcon’s cheek below it – known as the eye of Horus, above – and broke it into separate parts so that the eyebrow, for instance, equalled one eighth and the pupil one quarter. The fractions then added up to 63/64, so the missing 1/64 was supplied magically by the god Thoth who was responsible for mathematical accuracy.

Now wonder why the babylon's used 60 and 360 as some of basics....of their math systems....?

> An overview of Babylonian mathematics

*****************EXCERPT****************

The Babylonians had an advanced number system, in some ways more advanced than our present systems. It was a positional system with a base of 60 rather than the system with base 10 in widespread use today. For more details of the Babylonian numerals, and also a discussion as to the theories why they used base 60, see our article on Babylonian numerals.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See link at post #14 for some ancient math that isn’t at all simple.

[Monkey Face]

Modern math ain’t all that simple, either!

And I never could get multiplication right. *sigh*

[patton]

Don’t feel bad, I have to take off my shoes to count past ten.

...and I have a degree in Math...

Look, those of you who think 2+2=4, arent thinking about it enough.

[Monkey Face]

See? I can’t think about it enough to get past 2+2=4....

I have trouble with my checkbook: How can I be overdrawn when I still have checks left?

[patton]

Well, if you define an abelion group with unity, revolving around your check book, you are not overdrawn, while you have checks.

...errr, let me know how that works out with the bank.

[Monkey Face]

The bank corrected my faulty thinking. They said it might be better if I used an ATM card and bought money orders....