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SECTION IV—PYRAMIDS
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In the papyrus, instead of dividing the base of the right triangle by the other given line, the author divides the other given line by the base. I follow Borchardt (1893) in treating this as a mistake.

At the end he does not multiply by 7 so as to express the seked in palms, as he does in the other problems.