MHF 4404 Test 1

Around 600 B.C. the number system used by the Greek was referred to as:

Around 600 B.C. a leader codified the laws in a city of Greece. The name of this

Pythagoras is said to have established the dictum:

The first mathematical operations described on the Egyptian papyrus were:

The Egyptian number 20, 3 in our number system (decimal) corresponds to the number:

a^2 + b^2 = c^2 is known as a Pythagorean triple. One of the methods for finding Pythagorean triplets is attributed to:

Babylonian from Tablet 322 . With the exception of occasional errors, what do we find?

Using the Babylonian notation, the number 148 is equivalent to:

Given the first two terms 24, 12 of the geometric proportion, the third term is:

The most advanced problems dealt with by the Babylonians concerned:

Babylonians developed a system of writing called:

When dealing with fractions, the Greeks used:

The oldest evidence of mathematical activity dated from around 30,000 B.C. It was found on a:

The geometry of the Egyptians was filled with problems relating to:

What is perhaps the greatest achievement of the Egyptian geometers is a method of correctly finding:

Before the modern era, the form of punishment in Greece was:

Egyptians solved linear problems using the method of false position known as:

The oldest civilizations using a form of math were:

The Greeks referred to the skill of computation as:

The Babylonian number system was:

The number five thousand two hundred forty two can be written in pseudo-Greek as:

Egyptians wrote primarily on:

In 1858, a portion of the Egyptian treatise was found and it is referred to as:

The Pythagorean triple with smallest number 5 is:

The Pythagorean triple with smallest number 8 is:

The most difficult computations in the ancient world occurred in:

In the middle of the Hyksos period, a scribe wrote a treatise on Egyptian mathematics. The name of the scriber was:

The most advanced problems dealt with the Babylonians, we would solve today using:

Many of the Babylonians applied mathematics problems dealt with:

The most important cities of Greece were:

If there is a quantity that measures two quantities, the quantities were called:

The word dyad in Greek, refers to:

The method of using one mark to indicate one unit is known as:

The Egyptian value for π was approximately:

Egyptians developed a system of writing called: