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Post by william on Aug 7, 2006 20:55:35 GMT -5
Last class did not go as well as the professor had planned. He didn't cover half of the material he wanted, which meant they would have a lot of catching up to do. The professor was also slightly worried that the students' interest of the subject would be dampened from last class.
"But Egyptian runes are really fascinating," he tried to reassure himself. He shuffled the pictures illustrating different runes in front of him and sighed. "At least I really think so."
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Post by arianna on Aug 21, 2006 0:31:34 GMT -5
"I think they are," Arianna claimed, coming into the room just in time to hear the man muttering to himself. Not only were they beautiful, for lack of a better word, but she found it interesting that some symbols could mean numerous things, usually depending on how old the inscription was. Which had made it difficult to decipher some of the ancient writings.
"I don't think I'd be here if they weren't," she assured him as she took a seat at the front of the room.
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Post by william on Aug 23, 2006 20:12:13 GMT -5
The professor didn't reply to that immediately. Sometimes he wondered if it's his teaching style that put the students off, or he picked materials that were too difficult. From the look of it, it's going to be an one-on-one lesson.
"So let's start," he said briskly. "We are going to cover numbers and calendars today. For Egyptian Runes, numbers were written as many times as necessary to make up the full number. Emphasis was always on laying them out as neatly as possible."
"The Egyptians used only addition and subtraction and didn't use abstract theorems to calculate their numbers. They used, such as the number of bricks that will be needed, how much would be needed to fill a jar.
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Post by william on Sept 8, 2006 16:52:55 GMT -5
(Class over, thanks for showing up guys!)
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