Show LON ONG G A PLAGUE TO YOUTH schoolboys schoolboy of many centuries ago aga had 1 to wrestle with problem of 1 aril arithmetic dosete the modern schoolboy may find comfort in 1 the tha tact fact that for 3 years y a schoolboys have been worried by just inich such desperate problems 1 in arithmetic as annoy oy him moat among the archaeological archeological arche discoveries to in egut b is a papyrus roll 1 in excellent effort condition dating from a period about 1700 B C this roll which has a long heading bi beginning tinning directions how to attain rim the knowledge of all 11 dark things proves beyond a doubt that a t the egyptian ot of that time had a th thor ar ough knowledge ot at the elements ot of a arithmetic rith metie numerous examples show that th their I 1 principal operations with units it and fractions trac tlona n made by means meana ot of addi two and multiplication subtraction and division war were not cnown la in in their cr present form hut but correct results were ob obtained tamed nevertheless v Equa equations timo are ata also found in the papyrus here la Is one which brings the egyptian pile schoolboy home be to us ten measures of barley are am to I 1 be a dl tided among ten persons persona in such a man ner or that each act subsequent iq I 1 person shall bell receive on one eighth of a measure less than the one before him another ex ample top given an 1 Is there that are Is seven men an cmel each ach one limi haa seven van cats C at each cat to th has a eaten tn seven mice each mouse has set eaten n seven grains grain of barley each grain of barley would have hava yielded seven measures of barley how much barley he haa b been lost loaf the papyrus also contains calculi ti eions one of area the cala calculation t of at the area of a circle attempts at squaring th the circle and finally calculation of th the cubic measurements of pyramids |