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: This makes a nice point, and perhaps suggests a simpler and deeper formulation for the task description ? I've used it as a welcome excuse to delete the first of my 3 Haskell versions, which included an exponentiation operator.
: Given that the 'Egyptian' algorithm is specifically a derivation of division from addition and subtraction, and assumes a dearth of more ambitious arithmetic operators, perhaps an edit (to that effect) to the task description – requiring parsimony in the use of arithmetic operators – no multiplication, division or exponentiation operators ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 14:33, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
: So what's your point? Ancient Egyptians didn't use multiplication an exponentiation? I somehow doubt they used digital computers, Latin letters or Arabic numerals either; yet every example posted so far uses all of these. Horrors. The algorithm given in the task description ''specifically'' states to use multiplication and exponentiation to generate the table. In addition, the task isn't "Generate a table using methods an ancient Egyptian would and then use that table to do Egyptian division." If we're going to get into petty, pedantic nit-picking, I could point out that the F# example is incorrect because it doesn't display the specific example solution required by the task. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 15:15, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
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