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Ancient Egyptians conducted land surveying and built monumental pyramids. What did later civilizations inherit from their innovations

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Ancient Egyptians after built monumental pyramids already had developments in mathematics: they calculated areas of different figures (a triangle, a circle); they could calculate square roots; Erected numbers to different degrees; found the arithmetic mean and even solved the equations of the second degree with one unknown, that is, invented the same "X", replacing in modern mathematics unknown value.

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