Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> You raise an interesting point that the area of a
> circle was of interest which appears to be so from
> the diameter of the holes in the top ledge of the
> sarcophagus which are precisely 9/8 digits in
> diameter so an area of one square digit (by
> applying the AE formula of 8/9 x diameter and
> viewing the product as square units).

The Egyptian formula was:

area = (8/9 x diameter) squared.

> This is, of course, not the place to debate the
> matter....

Why not?

> I agree that there isn't much value in knowing the
> ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a
> circle unless someone in Ancient Egypt took the
> giant step of using that ratio to calculate the
> area of a circle, an idea that was rejected by
> Petrie (and rejected by some of those who accept
> Petrie's 22/7 hypothesis).

So, how do you get from c/d = 22/7 to area = (8/9 x d) squared?