northstar2595 Wrote:
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>And, yes, the Royal Cubit of the Great Pyramid really was 20.62 inches.


Maybe you should read
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Petrie Ch. 20, Values of the cubit and digit.

The cubit in the Great Pyramid varies thus:—

By the base of King's Chamber, corrected for opening of joints 20.632 ± .004
By the Queen's Chamber, if dimensions squared are in square cubits 20.61 ± .02
By the subterranean chamber 20.65 ± .05
By the antechamber 20.58 ± .02
By the ascending and Queen's Chamber passage lengths (section 149) 20.622 ± .002
By the base length of the Pyramid, if 440 cubits (section '43) 20.611 ± .002
By the entrance passage width 20.765 ± .01
By the gallery width 20.605 ± .032
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20.62 inches per cubit is just the estimated mean value, but based off of the different values listed above the builders either made errors or the cubit varied in length. And that is the only point I’m making, how do we know errors were not made when measuring the GP base at 440 cubits.


>If you want the GP to be 440 cubits then the other pyramids
>would also have to have been designed starting from the base
>length as a round number of cubits.

Why? Each pyramid was built for different people so why should what happened at the GP have anything to do with other pyramids.


>The Red Pyramid, built by Khufu's father, has side lengths
>of 8631 inches(719.25 feet). Using your cubit length that
>comes out to 418.7588233 cubits. Please explain the choice
>of that side length or retract your contention that the GP
>was designed from a base of an ever 440 cubits.

Retract why when I am correct. Different cubit length for the Red then the GP or errors were made in measuring. If you have the magical power to declare the cubit was exactly 20.62 inches then I too should have the same power to declare it was 20.611 inches.


>So your contention that the GP started with a base of
>exactly 440 cubits goes against everything we know
>about the other pyramids. Kind of a hard sell, I would say.

Well saying the GP base was not meant to be 440 cubits is a lot harder sell IMO.

Regards
RLH