. ., 20. The products are expressed in the Egyptian manner; for example, 1⁄19 of 3 is given as 1⁄15 1⁄20 1⁄57 1⁄95: Baillet gives a detailed discussion of the probable methods employed in preparing this table.
The problems (pp. 63-88) deal with a variety of subjects, such as volumes of containers, various operations on fractions, proportion, and interest on money. Of the three geometrical problems the first appears to be to find the contents of a cistern in the form of a frustum of a cone, given the perimeters of the bases as 20 and 12 units while the depth is 6%. The data[1] are similar to those in a problem of Schubart (1916). Compare Grenfell (1903).
Baillet gives extended and valuable commentary, pp. 1-23, 32-62; this includes (pp. 59-62) "comparaison avec le papyrus Rhind." An important supplement to one part of his work will be found in P. Tannery, "Le Calcul des partes proportionnelles chez les Byzantines," Revue des Etudes Grecques, Paris, vol. 7, 1894, pp. 204-208; also in P. Tannery, Mémoires Scientifiques, Toulouse and Paris, vol. 4, 1920, pp. 283-287.
Review by V. V. Bobynin, "Greko-Egipetskii matematicheckii papirus iz Akmima" [The Greek-Egyptian papyrus of Akhmim], Fiziko-matematicheskiya Nauki v ikh Nasloyashchem i Proshedshem [Physical and Mathematical Sciences in the Present and in the Past], Moscow, vol. 12, no. 4, 1895, pp. 301-340.
Review by M. Cantor, "Ein mathematischer Papyrus in griechischer Sprache," Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 38, 1893, Historisch-literarische Abtheilung, pp. 81-87.
Review by F. Hultsch, Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift, vol. 14, Oct. 13, 1894, cols. 1327-1331. See also Hultsch (1894).
See also Loria (1893) and Heath (1921), vol. 2, pp. 543-545.
Eisenlohr, A., "Remarks on [Revillout's] 'Un papyrus bilingue du temps de Philipator'," Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vol. 14, 1892, pp. 341-342; compare p. 102.
The demotic-Greek papyrus here referred to, British Museum 10463, was discussed by E. Revillout in this same volume of the Proceedings, 1891, pp. 60- 97; 1892, pp. 120-132, 229-255. See British Museum, A Guide to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms and the Coptic Room, London, 1922, p. 308; an English Translation of the Creek (locket is here given and indicates that it is a portion of a contract for the sale of a field of 115⁄8 arurae. Revillout devotes pp. 63-80 to "La question des mesures superficielles." Griffith (1892) refers to Revillout's article.
Only two references to the Rhind papyrus. The reference on page 342 is as follows: "When you say, page 102, Prof. Dr. Eisenlohr, who was the first to publish a facsimile of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, you restrain the importance of my work. As you know perfectly well, I have not only given the facsimile of the papyrus, but have translated and commented, verbally and scicntifically, the papyrus, adding a dictionary of the whole. I have already
- ↑ Baillet finds this problem quite incorrect. But if instead of dividing by 36 the author had divided by 12, it would seem as if he would have arrived at the same result as did the author of Oxyrhynchus papyrus 470; compare Grenfell (1903).
