lobo-hotei Wrote:
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> Quote:The absence of AE large circular structures
> (particularly tombs) has long bothered me and I
> have tried hard over the years to find a plausible
> explanation for the repeated appearance of 22/7 in
> the plan of Khufu's pyramid that did not invoke
> pi.
>
> The only thing I have come up with to date is that
> 22/7 is derived from the seked 5½ used for the
> Pyramid's superstructure.
> Seked 5½ was usually described as 1 royal cubit
> rise to 5½ palms run.
> It occurs to me that as a royal cubit is equal to
> 7 palms, and 5½ palms is equal to 22 digits, then
> this seked could have been seen as 7 palms rise to
> 22 digits run, which then could have inspired the
> Pyramid’s architect to incorporate the numbers 22
> and 7 in some of his calculations of the Pyramid’s
> many dimensions.
> I suggest that this utilisation would have been in
> the form:
> dimension A = dimension B × 22 ÷ 7
> or
> dimension A = dimension B ÷ 22 × 7.
>
> If we take dimension B to be, for example, 10
> royal cubits, then:
> dimension A would be 10 royal cubits × 22 ÷ 7 = 31
> + 1/7 +1/7 +1/7 royal cubits (decimal 31.429)
> or
> dimension B ÷ 22 × 7 = 3 + 1/7 + 1/557 royal
> cubits (decimal 3.182).
>
>
> Your words not mine. No fixating, simply reading
> what you wrote about the examples you gave above.
>
> Regards,
> Lobo-hotei
> lobo

I give up.

MJ