Hi Mark

Mark Wrote:
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>You have to find a reason why 10 x pi x height of Niche
>should have been designed in the way you suggest,
>or rather as Piazzi Smyth suggested.

Well it’s not my discovery so there is no reason for me to find the reason. Having said that there appears to be many times 10 examples with the GP. One example might be 28 times 10= 280 for the height of the GP.


>Many have looked at this for over one hundred years.
>The height of the Niche should be 183.6 inches using the pi approximation 22/7

Well maybe your calculator works different then mine! I get 5776 inches divided by 22/7 = 1837.8182 and 1837.8182 divided by 10 = 183.78182 rounding up I get 183.8 inches. So I’m not sure where you are getting 183.6 ?

>or 183.7 inches using calculator pi.

Again I get 5776 inches divided by pi = 1838.5579 inches and 1838.5579 inches divided by 10 = 183.85579 and rounding to the nearest is 183.86 inches. So I’m not sure where you are getting 183.7 ?

>Petrie measured the height of the Niche at 183.8 inches.

Yes I know that is why I did the math here => [hallofmaat.com]

Quote “I’ll also add, the height of the queen chamber niche times 10 times 3+1/7 = the height of the GP.

183.8 * 10 * 3.1428571 = 5776.5714 inches. “

And yes I know it is off .5714 inches compared to Petrie’s 5776 inches but he does have a ± factor.

Here is what Petrie had to say about the niche.

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” Then the niche height x 10pi is said to be = Pyramid height. This coincidence is close, the niche being 183.80, and the Pyramid height being 10pi x 183.85, but the use of pi here is so arbitrary and unsystematic, that this cannot rank as more than a chance coincidence.”


I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea it is just a chance coincidence.

Thanks for the reply! And yes I have read your stuff on the GG in the AE forum.

Regards
RLH