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The hekat or heqat (transcribed HqA.t) was an ancient Egyptian volume unit used to measure grain, bread, and beer. It equals 4.8 litres, or about 1.056...

than French units.: 34  See the article on the demiard for details. Firlot Hekat Hogshead Homer House cord – a former U.S. unit of volume for stacked...

the 25 problems. A pefsu measures the strength of the beer made from a hekat of grain pefsu = number loaves of bread (or jugs of beer) number of heqats...

The first half of the tablet details five multiplications of a hekat, a unit of volume made up of 64 dja, by 1/3, 1/7, 1/10, 1/11 and 1/13. The answers...

land unit of uncertain value, possibly derived from Nubia. Units of volume appear in the mathematical papyri. For example, computing the volume of a circular...

recombinase, a protein Hin, an ancient Egyptian unit of volume; see hekat Hin, a Biblical and Talmudic unit of measurement Hindley railway station, in England...

of Horus fractions of a hekat, the remainder was written using the usual Egyptian fraction notation as multiples of a ro, a unit equal to 1 320 {\displaystyle...

defines scribal remainder arithmetic in term of another context, a hekat (volume unit). Oddly, Gillings did not cite AWT data in "Mathematics in the Time...

near the Dja River in Cameroon Dja, a sub-divided unit of the hekat, an ancient Egyptian volume unit Dja Dja Wurrung people, an Aboriginal Australian people...

systems of the Hindus: B-9  and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1⁄2, 1⁄4,1⁄8, 1⁄16, 1⁄32, and 1⁄64 (1 ro...

explicitly cites, "seven houses, 49 cats, 343 mice, 2401 ears of spelt, 16807 hekats." In particular problem 79 concerns a situation in which 7 houses each contain...

a hekat, hekat x 22/x x 7/22 = hekat;[citation needed] however, Ahmes continued to use the traditional 256/81 value for π for computing his hekat volume...

Akhmim wooden tablet wrote fractions in the form 1/n in terms of sums of hekat rational numbers, 1/3, 1/7, 1/10, 1/11 and 1/13. In this document a two-part...

small to large were the ro, hin, hekat, and khar.) Because of the lack of official definitions, many of these units will not have a consistent value....