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main = print $ egyptianQuotRem 580 34</lang> [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:35, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
==Number Systems==
The Egyptian number system essentially precludes multiplication and division, but they required both. They therefore designed methods that required only addition. I am willing to accept that n*2 is essentially equivalent to n+n but I must take exception to 'dbls.append(pwrs[-1] * divisor)' in the Python solution. They could not have multiplied by a variable like (say 34). As for exponentiation, well let's just say the Perl 6 is not Egyptian--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 12:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
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