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... The complex is surrounded by a wall of fine white Tura limestone, which when built, measured some 10.5 meters (34 feet) high and was 1,645 meters (5,397 ft) long. Within was an area of about 15 ha (37 acres), which would have been the size of a small town during the Old Kingdom. It contained a vast complex of functional, as well as what we believe were dummy buildings, including pavilions of the North and South, large tumuli and terraces, finely carved facades, ribbed and fluted columns, stairways, platforms, shrines chapels and life-size statues. There was even a replica of the pyramid substructure, called the South Tomb, but the centerpiece was, of course, the Step Pyramid itself, rising to a height of about 60 meters (197 feet), in six steps and containing some 330,400 cubic meters (11,668,000 cubic feet) of clay and stone. Many of the structures contain elements that become familiar forms, but here we see for the first time. Of course, there is the pyramid structure itself, but also we see the first colonnade, the first Hypostyle, portico, life-sized statues, torus-moldings and cavetto cornice. In fact, many of these elements survived as members of the hieroglyphic sign-list of sacred buildings. ... [
www.touregypt.net]
1645 meters = 64763.65 inches = 3141.12 cubits and isn't 1000 x Pi equal to 3141.59
So we are within 0.47 cubit or 9.7 inches over 64763.65 inches or 0.00015 or 99.985 %
"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db
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