Byrd Wrote:
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> molder Wrote:
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>
> > Yes 68.7 miles is 1 degree of latitude at the
> > equator
> >
> > 687 is the number of days in 1 year on mars.
>
> Except... the Egyptians couldn't write 68.7 It
> would have been 68+1/2 + 1/5
>
> > Now think about 6.87 and take its square root
> the
> > Egyptians knew square roots.
>
> They could only do square roots of whole numbers.
> 6.87 is 6+1/2+1/3+1/28+1/1050 and they had no way
> of finding the square root of 1/1050 (or 1/3, for
> that matter)
>
> >
> > 2.621 or twice phi
>
> And here we get into a representation that moves
> to the purely absurd in Egyptian:
> 2+1/3+1/16+1/18+1/35+1/51+1/86+1/306+1/1000+1/1190+1/2550+1/7310
>
> > Take its square root
>
> YOU try it, using the Egyptian method. Go ahead.
> Demonstrate using their numbers (show your work)
> (here's how they did it:
> [www.mathnstuff.com]
> )
>
> > 1.6189 close to phi take its square root. Its
> > approximate but still close. Take the square
> root
>
> Square root of
> 1+1/2+1/16+1/32+1/64+1/128+1/1024+1/2048+1/4096+1/320000+1/2560000
>
> (skeptical look) In ancient Egyptian numbers
> you're going to need quite a bit of papyrus.
>
> > 1.272388 the slant angle of the pyramid
>
> Let's see... that would be...
> 1+1/4+1/64+1/256+1/512+1/2048+1/4096+1/8192+1/32768+1/65536+1/500000+1/1000000+1/4000000+1/16000000+1/32000000+1/128000000+1/256000000+1/1024000000
>
> You're gonna need a boatload of papyrus for that
> one. There's well over 200 symbols in that one
> number.
>
> Please explain why they would waste their time
> doing this instead of using the experimentally
> derived (via Sneferu's mistakes) metric of "five
> palms and 2 digits up, one cubit over"?


Could not agree more you and Hans have proved it.

It would take a boatload of papyrus to write this up in Egyptian.

Well done.

They are using decimals. Not only that they are using trigonometry to speak to you.

A guy named Derek Skane pointed out the cosine of 756 a common value for the base of the Great Pyramid = cos 756 = 0.809016994 x 2 = 1.618033989 phi.

They are speaking to you Byrd 687 about Mars.

Jim