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Mathematics in ancient Egypt Table of Contents The introduction of writing in Egypt in the predynastic period ( c. 3000 BCE) brought with it the formation of a special class of literate professionals, the scribes . By virtue of their writing skills, the scribes took on all the duties of a civil service: record keeping, tax accounting, the management of public works (building projects and the like), even the prosecution of war through overseeing military supplies and payrolls. Young men enrol
Apr 15, 2024, 7:26 pm - eddessaknight - Mathematics Forum

Are you smarter than a finance major?Reply
Either the Economist or the WSJ did a writeup of this some years back. It's an interesting experiment. I wonder what the results would have been if the participants were drawn from different occupations or areas of study. Also if some people get unlucky and their computer flips heads only 55% of the time instead of 60%, then even with theoretically optimal play they will not end up with much at the end.
Aug 12, 2022, 8:13 pm - db101 - Mathematics Forum

How To Possibly Fly Sky High Without Drugs or Alchol
High flying fighter jets and jet liners but not unlike like ancient Greek Icarus outcome be cause it's bio based on you Did you know a researcher from an aeronautical university in the United States did a study looking at why the impact of biorhythms is so important in aviation accidents with military fighter pilots? In one incident, on September 11, 1985, a pilot was killed after his A-7 aircraft crashed into a mountain in Pindos, Greece. It s a sad story, I know. But the fa
Sep 30, 2023, 7:13 pm - eddessaknight - Mathematics Forum

How many combos in sequence for 5/36 matrix?Reply
The above post is very likely the single best post I've ever seen on The Lottery Post. Thanks very much for going the extra mile and giving me info on linear progressions that I hadn't even considered or even knew of. (Which is more the case... I wasn't a fan of math in school. I knew it could be fascinating as Hell, but because I didn't want to be a good student, I basically didn't bother to study it. I'm the type of guy that got a 'C' without cracking a book. I've often wondered what my grades
Sep 7, 2022, 12:46 pm - GiveFive - Mathematics Forum

Monty Hall Problem and Implications Explained
The Monty Hall problem is a famous case study in the application of Probability, specifically the concept of Conditional Probability. In simple terms Conditional Probability is the probability that something will occur given the additional information that something else has occurred. If something else is known to have occurred, it may or may not affect the probability of something . Examples of the probability of something not being affected by something else are (a) the outcome of the n-t
Mar 28, 2024, 9:56 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum