Ahmès

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Ahmes was an Egyptian priest which lived towards -1700. One of its works which survived to him belongs to the Papyrus Rhind now preserved at the British Museum (Newman, 1956). Work is entitled “ directions for the knowledge of all the dark things ”. It is a collection of problems of Géométrie and Arithmétique. The problems are presented with the solutions, but often without index to know how the solution was obtained.

Ahmes expressed without demonstration that a circular field with a diameter of 9 units has a surface equal to a square of with dimensions 8 units (Beckman, 1971). In modern notation:

π (9/2) ² = 8 ²

who leads to a value of pi equalizes to 3,16049…

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