1. Such representations are popularly known as Egyptian Fractions or Unit Fractions . 2. The concepts referred to in the booklet included unit fractions and Egyptian fractions. 3. An interesting feature of Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the use of unit fractions . 4. Athenians measured the day by sundials and unit fractions . 5. The first part of the papyrus is taken up by the unit fractions . 6. This gives us that 1 / N will be the next unit fraction . 7. :The names for such problems are ratios, proportions, and unit fractions . 8. There was a trivial error associated with the final 1 / 15 unit fraction series. 9. When,, and are distinct then these unit fractions form an Egyptian fraction representation of the number. 10. The inaccurate 1920s supposition has been replaced by parsing large vulgar fractions by stripping away the unit fraction notation.
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