Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> There's plenty of evidence that the Egyptians
> understood a precursor version of Pi, and it's
> well documented in the publications of the
> authorities on the matter:
>
>
> Professor Miroslav Verner wrote: "…the ancient
> Egyptians' constructions are the best evidence of
> their mathematical capabilities. Let us take for
> instance, the Great Pyramid in Giza. If we imagine
> a circle whose radius is the height of the
> pyramid, then the circumference is identical with
> the base of the pyramid. This could be achieved
> only if the wall had the correct angle, and
> everything had to be calculated in advance. We can
> conclude that although the ancient Egyptians may
> have never precisely defined the value of pi, in
> practice they used it.” (Verner 2001: 70).
>
> The greatest pyramid authority of the late 19th
> century and the first half of the 20th century was
> undoubtedly Flinders Petrie, and was author of
> ‘The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh” and the survey
> of the Meidum pyramid. He was the first accurate
> surveyor of Giza and the excavator and surveyor of
> the Pyramid of Meidum, he concluded, after many
> years in the field in Egypt: "but these relations
> of areas and of circular ratio are so systematic
> that we should grant that they were in the
> builder’s design" (Petrie 1940: 30).
>
> Earlier in the chapter quoted above, he wrote more
> specifically, that: “We conclude therefore that
> the approximation of 7 to 22 as the ratio of
> diameter to circumference was recognised” (Petrie
> 1940: 27).
>
> Petrie, W. M. F.
> 1940 Wisdom of the Egyptians. London: British
> School of Archaeology in Egypt and B. Quaritch
> Ltd.
>
> Verner, M.
> 2001 The Pyramids: Their Archaeology and History.
> London: Atlantic Books.
>
> My own work has shown that there is in fact
> written verification for this in Old Kingdom
> hieroglyphic texts, and that the encircling
> symbolism represented eternal encircling royal
> protection, symbolised iconographically by Horus
> holding the Shen ring.

At this point, I might remind you that we're still awaiting answers to the questions mentioned and linked to here ...

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