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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?
(I helped save b3ta! tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:41, archived)
# 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.
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:46, archived)
# Says he was also a citizen of Rome
so everyone wins
(I helped save b3ta! tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:48, archived)
# I've never read that far down
/ is a bit scared of formulae and the like
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:52, archived)
# It's only the third paragraph, way before the scary numbers
(I helped save b3ta! tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 10:05, archived)