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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Are you saying that the Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks didn't know how to
> work with fractions?
>
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EgyptianFraction.html
>
> http://nrich.maths.org/2515
>
> Okay, it's not quite 4000 years ago. Sometimes my historical sense of the
> distant past is a tad inaccurate. Shall we say 2000 years instead?

Those links give dates of 1650 BC and 1800 BC respectively, so I'd say
your initial guess was closer.