Hi Mark this from Keith's paper:

"... the pyramid was surrounded by a stone enclosure wall, thought to be some 8m high, with its base some 3.14m wide. This wall enclosed a paved courtyard, thought to be 20 cubits wide (10.5m) which surrounded the pyramid "

Very interesting ( I knew this as we all did) . For the height of most of the columns in Ancient Greece were also 8 meters tall. This interestingly is 314.96 inches and the width of the wall is 3.14 meters while In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome the column's diameter was always 3 meters even. 3.14 meters interesting again equals 123.622 inches which if we divide by 100 to get 1.23622 and add 1 we get 2.23622 and the sq rt of 5 to within 0.99986. To get sq rt of 5 precisely we would need a width of sq rt of 5 = 2.236068 then minus 1 to get 1.236068 then times 100 to get 123.6068 and then times 0.0254 to get meters and we get 3.1396 ... And a fact that I had noticed on The Greek and Roman temple columns and now showing up here in the wall is that 8 meters is 314.96 inches and is 1/10th of the cubits involved in 1/2 of The Giza Rectangle of 1732.28 and 1417.32 which equals 3149.56 cubits. So 10 cubits at Giza equals one inch of column and wall. I know a lot of you hate numbers but sometimes they tell the real story when measuring in meters just simply doesn't do it and the lowly "inch" can. We have to remember that The Ancient Egyptians were building in cubits not meters. And the paved courtyard was 20 cubits and 412.4 inches and about a 1 to 10 ratio with what is found for the size of the chamber itself. They just didn't randomly pick numbers to build to. It has an overall design to it and it all fits neatly and nicely together.


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