Kanga Wrote:
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> hrst1 Wrote:
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> > Your source of the MK Rhind Papyrus in claiming
> > that "they" (whoever 'they' are) didn't know
> > decimals is easily disproven for "those" of the
> > Old Kingdom.
>
> No they didn't. This is a stupid made up claim,
> just like your stride of Re.
>
> > The height of the Queen's Chamber of
> > the Khufu is 10.9 cubits from floor to apex,
>
> No it's not. The height is 11 cubits 6 palms, not
> a decimal amount.
>
> > the dimensions of the passage from the
> Antechamber to
> > the King's Chamber were structured to a tenth
> the
> > average Stride (in 2541 BC) high,
>
> The height and width of the passage is 2 cubits,
> not a decimal amount.
>
> And what the hell is an "average stride"?
>
> > and to a tenth
> > the specific Stride wide. Etc..
>
> Your so-called stride of Re is merely 20 cubits.
>
> > If you know
> > tenths, you know decimals.
>
> Rubbish. They are not the same thing. Have you
> studied mathematics at all?
>
> > So, how about you quit
> > parroting what "them" judged your orals by?
>
> How about you acknowledge that you are wrong?
>
> > Who are you still trying to impress with your
> > acquiescent squawking?
>
> Who are you trying to impress with YOUR squawking?


The passage to the King's Chamber is far from square. I don't know what gives you that idea?
Vyse (Vol.II 1840:111) gave the passage dimensions as 3 feet 8" x 3 feet 5.5", i.e., as (44" x 41.5") about 2.5 inches out of square.
I have laser measured the dimensions and the values are closer to 43.65" x 41.25". Hence, so structured for the reasons given.

I should have written 11.9 cubits, not 10.9, for the height of the QC. Sorry for the typo.
Petrie (1883:66) gave the apex height of the Queen's Chamber as 245.1". Which equates to 11.891 cubits, fractionally short of 11.9 cubits, perhaps due to some subsidence. The roof has apparently not subsided to 244.4" above the floor, which would be the measure of 11 cubits 6 palms.
For the 'decimal division of the cubit' see Petrie 1883:180.

The cubit-length employed in the Khufu could not have measured 20.62" since the base-length of the Pyramid would have measured (440 x 20.62") 9072.8".
I.e., about 3.5 inches longer than the 9069.4" agreed by Cole, Dash and Petrie (9068.8 ±.6").

Note the base-lengths of the Red, Khafre and Khufu Pyramids were designed to 21, 20.5 and 22 average Stride-lengths respectively during their construction eras, the Menkaure to 10 average Strides E–W and 9.5 specific Strides N–S.
Which is why Petrie found the S. side to be ~8.6" shorter than the E. side. (1883:111) The so-called Queens' Pyramids of Menkaure (Reisner 1931:62) were, for G3-b and G3-c, built to 3 average Strides in ~103.5-feet base-length during their 2476 BC – 2472 BC construction era, decreasing by a quarter, half and three-quarter Stride in the base-dimensions of the ascending layers. Whereas G3-a was built to 4 specific Strides of 36.3688 feet, i.e., to 4/10,000th of degree of latitude in its 145.475-feet base-length, (Vyse estimated 145.75 feet 1840:125) hence its geometric, rather that stepped-form, so to differentiate.