Ancient Egyptian’s Knew Binary Mathematics?
Jun 4th, 2007 by admin
Here’s an interesting video clip that looks into the methods that ancient Egyptians used for mathematical calculations.
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Experts long believed that the ancient Egyptian’s knowledge of mathematics was actually quite limited, especially when compared with our modern decimal system.
However, this clip goes to show that their grasp of binary is in fact a much simpler method for calculating multiplication and division of numbers.