August 15, 2009 06:59AM
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Registered: 17 years ago
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Lobo,
What you say may well have been the reason, though not without arguments that can be made against it. For instance, in the example you cite why not simply have the run be either 11 cubits or palms to a corresponding rise of 14 cubits or palms? It would seem that in cases where "inconvenient" numbers are being encountered one could always have framed the relationship in more convenient terms. Take for example Problem 58 of the RMP, is it really likely that at a job site they were working with a measurement context of "7 palms to 5 palms 1 finger", or is it not more likely that they were working within a 4 palms to 3 palms framework? I do not find it credible that they would not have seen, and not taken advantage of, such a simplification. Add to this the likelihood that templates would have been in use at the worksite, some evidence of which I believe has been documented.
This being said, I do not have a better explanation for the seked having been set out in the way that it was. My gut feeling is, however, that there was a more considered (perhaps religious?) rationale involved. I really don't know.
Best,
Lee
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