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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
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Key facts
- Date
- Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
- Place of origin
- Thebes, Egypt
- Language
- Egyptian ( Hieratic )
- Scribe
- Ahmes
- Material
- Papyrus
- Size
- First section ( BM 10057 ): Length: 295.5 cm (116.3 in) Width: 32 cm (13 in) Second section ( BM 10058 ): Length: 199.5 cm (78.5 in) Width: 32 cm (13 in)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- manuscript
- Named after
- Alexander Henry Rhind
- Author
- Ahmes
- Country of origin
- Ancient Egypt
- Main subject
- mathematics
- Material used
- papyrus
- Collection
- British Library
- Image
- Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.jpg
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- language of work or name
- Egyptian
- catalog code
- 17
- Commons category
- Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
- publication date
- 1600-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057, pBM 10058, and Brooklyn Museum 37.1784Ea-b) is one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics.
It is one of two well-known mathematical papyri, along with the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus. The Rhind Papyrus is the larger, but younger, of the two.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhind Mathematical Papyrus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.