Definition:Egyptian Fraction/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Egyptian Fraction
Egyptian fractions are so called because they were the only means of representations of fractional values in the mathematics of ancient Egypt.
David Wells, in his $1986$ book Curious and Interesting Numbers, refers to $2 / 3$ as "uniquely unrepresentative".
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $2 / 3$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2 / 3$