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(B.117) You want to divide thirty nummi between two men: for one of them a half and for the other a third. The meaning of these words is that when one of them receives a half the other is to receive a third, (and so on) until nothing remains of the thirty.
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Sesiano, J. (2014). Chapter (B–IV) on Division according to portions. In: The Liber mahameleth . Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03940-4_48
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