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Another edition, "neu bearbeitet," by H. Ranke, Tiibingen, 1923. pp- 423-428-

References to fourteen items in this bibliography.

1886

Demme, C., "Bemerkungen zu den Regeln des Ahmes und des Baud-hâyana über die Quadratur des Kreises," Zeitschruift für Mathematik and Physik, vol. 31, 1886, Historisch-Iliterarische Abtheilung, pp. 132-134 + plate with figures.

Seeks to find the method by which the author of the Rhind papyrus arrived at his formula for the area of a circle.

1887

Wessely, K. F. J., "Die Zahl Neunundneunzig," Mittleilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyrus Erzeherzog Rainer, Vienna, vol. 1, 1887, pp. 113-116.

1888

Mansion, P., [“"ur une table du papyrus Rhind"], Annales de la Société Scienttjfique de Bruxelles, Louvain, vol. 12, 1888, pp. 44-46.

Reprinted in P. Mansion, "Sur une table du papyrus Rhind," Mélanges Mathématiques (1883-1898), Paris, 1898, pp. 1-3.

Last sentence (p. 46): "En résumé, les décomposilions de la table du papyrus son: toujours, :1 1471 point de me 014 d un autre, plus simple que tome autre de'composition possible."

1889

Bobynin, V. V ., "Quelques mots sur l'histoire des connaissances mathematiques antérieures à la science," Bibliotheca Mathematica, series 2,vol 3,1889,pp.105—108.

1890

Bobynin, V. V., "Sur le procédé employé dans le papyrus de Rhind pour réduire les fractions en quantiemes," Bibliotheca Mathematica, series 2, vol. 4, 1890, pp. 109-112.

On reducing 2/(2π + 1) to fractions with numerators unity. The author seeks to show that the process of Leonardo Pisano (1857), the "regula universalis in disgregatione partium numerorum," as given in his work of 1202, is related to that of the Rhind papyrus.