The Lost Evidence of Egyptian Mathematics

The right papyrus gives us no sense of maths as an abstract discipline through which the world can be conceived and contemplated anew. The most remarkable thing about this papyrus is how close it lets me get to the fascinating quirky details of aspects of daily life under the pharaohs. So did the Egyptians really eat fwagra? From the papyrus you can learn that if you force feed a goose, it needs five times as much grain as a free-range goose will eat. But ancient Egypt also seems to have a battery farming because we're told that geese kept in a coop so presumably unable to move will need only a quarter of the food consumed by their free-range counterparts