MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Wrong; the architects (note the plural) of the
> Giza necropolis were cogs in a number of wheels.

Were they?

> Okay, let's cut to the quick here; you post all of
> the examples you have to date and I’ll pick out
> the ones I think have potential as possible
> evidence that the builders of the Giza necropolis
> measured gradients and slopes in degrees.

Too late...you had your chance.
Plus...you don't understand the two samples that I did present...why continue with you?

> Mind you, Clive, it’s going to take an
> authenticated contemporary or near contemporary AE
> text showing degrees being used to actually
> convince me that you and others are correct on
> this particular issue.’

"Authenticated contemporary" get off it man...do you realize how foolish you write/sound...!

>...that's the number pi multiplied and
> divided..."and"...and 360 degrees circle.
> The result is they intersect at the center line of
> the Kc.’
>
> Yes, Clive, I can see that.

Awesome...we're getting somewhere...!!

> However, you have agreed with me that one will
> naturally produce the other.

I didn't...how did you assume that?

> Do you know which of the two the intentional
> dimension was?

Are you for real?
I'm taking it back...you're blind as can be...you still don't see it...!!!


> Why is the mid-line of the KC where it is?

Ooooh the pain...my belly is hurting...

> the KC had to be moved southward
> of this axis simply to accommodate the south end
> of the Gallery and allow for the shift from
> limestone to granite?

Is that right?
Did they move the chamber before or after it was assembled?

> Has it not occurred to you that the N-S position
> of the KC may have nothing to do with your blue
> circle but everything to do with the planning of
> the Great Step,

Aaah the Great step...what's a pyramid without a great step.
What of the step in the queen's passage...is that important also?

> the passage linking it to the
> Antechamber, the Antechamber itself, the passage
> between the Antechamber and the KC, and the KC
> itself?

And the ankle is connected to the leg bone and the leg bone....

> Are you, through your diagram, claiming that the
> KC, the two passages, the Antechamber, and the
> Great Step were squeezed into the 21rc space
> between the face of the Great Step and the centre
> of your blue circle after the circle had been
> produced in the plans?

Can't recall mentioning anything relating to these items...can you?

> Why is the KC at the height it is?
> Why is the QC at the level it is?
> And so on, and so on…

It's that/those architects/cogs again...do you have his/their e-address ?

> You write, ‘Now I want you to chose any other
> number but 360 for the division of the circle and
> see where the two lines intersect. I guarantee
> that it is nowhere near the KC center line.’
>
> Sorry, Clive, but I see this as nothing more than
> yet another of your pointless exercises.

Bingo....!

> Yes, your diagram works in terms of geometry, but
> so what?

I didn't design it...the pyramid builders did.

> I could with a little effort find the height of
> Khafre’s pyramid ‘hidden’ inside Khufu’s.

I have...would you like to know where it's hidden?

> You write, ‘IOW....you can only conclude from this
> illustration that the ancients used a 360 degrees
> system and knew pi to at least 3 decimal places.
>
> Your diagram allows no such conclusion.
> Once again what you claim is completely
> nonsensical.

Wrong...you failed in performing what I asked.
You pushed it to one side and now claim my work nonsensical.
Sorry but you just shot another hole in your foot...getting to be habit forming.

> As I have already pointed out to you, Clive, I
> have far from elected to neglect your supposed
> evidence.
> I have taken your diagram apart and found it
> simply does not work as evidence for the AEs
> measuring angles in degrees.

There was nothing to take apart...a base line of a pyramid, two numerical samples converted to angles using a 360 degrees circle and a point of intersect. It can't get any simpler.

> objective criticism of your work...

Your criticism is not objective...far from it.

> Tell you what, Clive, when my hypothesis on how
> Khufu’s pyramid was planned is finished...I’ll send you a copy...

Save the postage...keep the book.

> I would probably finish it by next Xmas...

It's already finished.

Best.
Clive