Monday Links (Now Correctly Numbered) Vol. XLIV

[TimberWolf]

Adding and subtracting were difficult enough; long division was PhD level.

Bingo! And they didn't have a zero. Meanwhile, the Egyptians used "Egyptian fractions" for their fractions, although these did at least have the saving grace of serving some practical function. Although it didn't stop them needing tables of fractions, as there are an infinite number of ways of expressing them.

[vetran]

Darn you, when I should of been doing boring data mapping I was absorbed by Clients from Hell!

[NickFitz]

Darn you, when I should of been doing boring data mapping I was absorbed by Clients from Hell!

Yup, sites like that are a fatal distraction when there's something dull you really should be doing