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History of Mathematics Brief Version 1st Edition Katz Solutions Manual
History of Mathematics Brief Version 1st Edition Katz Solutions Manual
SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
CHAPTER ONE
1. We write 275 as follows in Egyptian hieroglyphics (on the left) and Babylonian cuneiform
(on the right):
2.
1 5
0 10 50 (multiply by 10)
2 10 (double first line)
4 20 (double third line)
08 40 (double fourth line)
02 22 (halve first line)
0 10 2 (invert third line)
18 2 10 93
3.
1 7248
2 15 2 4
04 31 2
08 63
03 4 3 3 6 12
12 3 98 2 3 3 6 12
99 2 4
3 33 3 73
0
6 136 6 323
0 0
66 6 12 1246
0
276 12
6 66 2
12 276 2
5.
5 ÷ 13 = (2 ÷ 13) + (3 ÷ 13) = 8 52 104 + 8 13 52 104 = 4 13 26 52
6 ÷ 13 = 2(3 ÷ 13) = 4 8 52 104 26 52 = 4 8 13 104
8 ÷ 13 = 2(4 ÷ 13) = 2 13 26
1 124
3 1 18
3 2 36
6 4 72
12 8 144
The sum of the numbers in the right hand column beneath the initial line is 1 141
144 . So we
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need to find multipliers giving us 144 = 144 72. But 1 3 4 times 144 is 228. It follows
that multiplying 1 3 4 by 228 gives 144 and multiplying by 114 gives 72. Thus, the
answer is 1 6 12 114 228.
2
45×100
9. Since x must satisfy 100 : 10 = x : 45, we would get that x = 10 ; the scribe breaks
this up into a sum of two parts, 35×100
10 and 10×100
10 .
10. The ratio of the cross section area of a log of 5 handbreadths in diameter to one of 4
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handbreadths diameter is 52 : 42 = 25 : 16 = 1 16 . Thus, 100 logs of 5 handbreadths
9 1
diameter are equivalent to 1 16 × 100 = 156 4 logs of 4 handbreadths diameter.
12.
8 34 17 8 · · ·
7) 1 00 00 00 00 00
56
4 00
3 58
2 00
1 59
1 00
56
4 ···
13. Since 3 × 18 = 54, which is 6 less than 60, it follows that the reciprocal of 18 is 3 13 , or,
putting this in sexagesimal notation, 3,20. Since 60 is (1 78 ) × 32, and 78 can be expressed
as 52,30, the reciprocal of 32 is 1,52,30. Since 60 = 1 19 × 54, and 19 can be expressed as
1 1 6 40 15
10 + 90 = 60 + 3600 = 0; 06, 40, the reciprocal of 54 is 1, 06, 40. Also, because 60 = 16 ×64,
the reciprocal of 64 is 15 1 15
16 . Since 16 = 3, 45, we get that 16 = 56, 15. If the only prime
divisors of n are 2, 3, 5, then n is a regular sexagesimal.
15. Since the length of the circumference C is given by C = 4a, and because√ C = 6r, it follows
that r = 23 a. The length T of the long transversal is then T = r 2 = ( 23 a)( 17 17
12 ) = 18 a.
The length t of the short transversal is t = 2(r − 2t ) = 2a( 23 − 17 7
36 ) = 18 a. The area A of
the barge is twice the difference between the area of a quarter circle and the area of the
right triangle formed by the long transversal and two perpendicular radii drawn from
the two ends of that line. Thus
! !
C 2 r2 a2 2a2 2
A=2 − =2 − = a2 .
48 2 3 9 9
16. Since the length of the circumference C is given by C = 3a, and because
√ C = 6r, it follows
that r = a2 . The length T of the long transversal is then T = r 3 = ( a2 )( 74 ) = 78 a. The
length t of the short transversal is twice the distance from the midpoint of the arc to
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