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Document Details : Title: A Papyrus with Mathematical Problems Author(s): BAKKER, Marja Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 44 Date: 2007 Pages: 7-21 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.44.0.3209369 Abstract : Edition with commentary of P.Col. inv. 157a, a probable leaf of a papyrus codex from the fourth-fifth century CE . The papyrus contains three mathematical exercises, of which not one is complete. The exercises calculate areas of plots of land. |
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