(en) The notion of pefsou that intervenes in grain counting necessary in bread and beer fabrication is significantly treated in the Egyptian mathematical corpus. But what this pefsou exactly determines, and why do we consider it as an element in a recipe for the Egyptian baker and brewer? The answer lies in both the Rhind and the Moscow papyrus.
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