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Problem 44

Example of reckoning the volume of a rectangular granary, its length being 10, its width 10, ''and its height 10. What is the amount of grain that goes into it?''

Multiply 10 times 10; it makes 100. Multiply 100 times 10; it makes 1000. Add its $1/undefined$; it makes 1500, its contents in khar. Take $1/undefined$ of 1500; it makes 75, its contents in quadruple hekat, namely, 7500 hekat of grain.

The working out:

Proof: