"Not entirely ... One dimension could be, say, a third, or a quarter, of another dimension, no matter what units of measure were used to set them out."
but we do not KNOW what the originally intended dimensions were ..so how can we how they relate to each other?
Don is trying to demonstrate that the present dimensions are Close enough to a precise ratio that we can assume that the precise ratio was intended.
Warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019