In seven houses there are seven cats. Each cat catches seven mice. Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn and each ear of corn, if sown, would have produced seven gallons of grain. How many ...

This is the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt. It contains 84 different mathematical problems - such as how to distribute 100 loaves of bread among a workforce in ...

The analysis of Problem 60 of the Rhind mathematical papyrus, the final exercise in a section devoted to the calculation of linear measures of monuments, is problematic, in particular with reference ...