On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Are you saying that the Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks didn't know how to > work with fractions? > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EgyptianFraction.html > > http://nrich.maths.org/2515 > > Okay, it's not quite 4000 years ago. Sometimes my historical sense of the > distant past is a tad inaccurate. Shall we say 2000 years instead?
Those links give dates of 1650 BC and 1800 BC respectively, so I'd say your initial guess was closer. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
