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Morningfox
Lv 7
Morningfox asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 3 months ago

Can this make mathematical sense?

Ancient poem: He had had descendants, / but one third died in childbirth, / one fourth of disease, / one fifth Resheph [god of plague] gathered to himself, / one sixth were lost at sea, / one seventh fell in battle.

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  • ida
    2 months ago

    Pls https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210... 

  • ?
    3 months ago

    depends on if you mean in the second two cases, one sixth of the original # or one sixth of those who made it to adulthood.

  • SKITTZO
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    Yes,it does.

    Read it carefully.

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    One way to look at it is he had seven descendants and saying 1/4 is like saying the 4th descendants

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