When1: -1650
Who: Ahmes
What: mathematician
Where: Fayum, Egypt
works\ Rhind papyrus or Ahmes Papyrus [-1650]
Detail: He lived -1680 to -1620, solved practical architecture problems, calculated astronomical events, and used simple interest, compound interest, principal, and rate. Multiplication is repeated doubling, and division is repeated halving.
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