Quote:
"The babylonians and Romans soon had symbols and words to define fractions, and the Egytians developed a well established method for writing fractions. The fractional notation that we know today."
Question:
How did the Egyptians came up with the fraction notation? Why didn't became popular whhen Brahmagupta wrote his book? How much work that we have given to Pythagoras actually his?
Doas it change how people feel about him?
Comment:
It's very inerresting how the terms calculate and calculator came about, and how we still use it. Something I found very strange is how long ago they came up witht the fraction notataion. Its just wierd how long it to people to warm up to the idea of fractions and decimals. It's also wierd how maybe "credit" we have giving to mathematician maybe not theirs directly.
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