you at home with this
challenge
/tenuous Greek/roman link
EDIT: how rude WOO
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:29,
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/tenuous Greek/roman link
EDIT: how rude WOO
yeah that did cross my mind too
But, Ptolemy was either Greek or Egyptian (I've never quite been able to figure it out) so as you say, the Roman connection's pretty tenuous.
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:37,
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I thought the ptolomy family was greek
but they took over egypt towards then end of the egyptian period.
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:38,
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Sounds about right
my family have a long history of being suckered into pyramid selling scams
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:43,
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Was he not Egyptian when Egypt was under Roman rule?
/may be talking out of arse
edit: what happened to your pea? Did you tread on it by mistake?
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:41,
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edit: what happened to your pea? Did you tread on it by mistake?
no no, you're right
he was born in Egypt - but is invariably described as Greek for some odd reason.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
edit: thankyou for your concern - my pea's not been quite the same ever since a recent trip to London.
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Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:46,
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www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
edit: thankyou for your concern - my pea's not been quite the same ever since a recent trip to London.