(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions ) Back in March, I had been reading On the Egyptian method of decomposing into unit fractions by Abdulrahman A. Abdulaziz, and I reported that: There is some indication that Ahmes preferred fractions with even denominators, because they are easier to double, and the usual Egyptian method of multiplication required repeated doubling. Although I had long ago written an article about why the Rhind mathematical papyrus (RMP) has a table of Egyptian fract
