Civilization 7 features the Papyrus Problems which is a direct reference to the Problem 79 of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian text dating to around 1550 BCE.
The problem is based on geometric progression summing the total numbers of items in five categories:
summing the total number of items across five categories:
- 7 houses
- 49 cats (7 cats per house)
- 343 mice (7 mice per cat)
- 2,401 ears of spelt (7 ears per mouse)
- 16,807 hekats of grain (7 hekats per ear)
Papyrus Problems Solution in Civ 7
71+72+73+74+75=7+49+343+2,401+16,807=19,607
So, the answer to the Papyrus Problems featured in Civ VII is 19,607.
The answer is not just 75=16, 80775=16,807 (the final term). The problem explicitly asks for the cumulative total of all items listed, not just the grain.
If you get the answer right, you will get +100 Science.
Papyrus Problems is the oldest known example in the world of a geometric series problem, sometimes compared to the “St. Ives” riddle.
