Egyptian fractions

Discussion concerning the first major re-evaluation of Dewey B. Larson's Reciprocal System of theory, updated to include counterspace (Etheric spaces), projective geometry, and the non-local aspects of time/space.
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silvio.caggia
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Egyptian fractions

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I have just learnt that ancient egyptians used fractions in a very strange way: they used them only in the unitary form 1/n!
Perhaps did they knew RS theory? :-)

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/numth/egypt/
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