Don Barone Wrote:
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> You are failing to understand Byrd ... anything
> divided by 7 or 28 or any multiple of 7 yields a
> very simple fraction. For that matter so does 7, 9
> and 11.

Huh?

ANY number divided by any other number gives a simple fraction.

>
> "Okay if they didn't invent but had been using it
> all along ... ?" Byrd I am curious and with all
> due respect do you not understand what we are
> doing here ? The Romans the major users of 12 used
> it because there were 12 digits in a foot and
> there were 12 Gods as well I believe.

No, there were a lot more than 12 gods. You might be thinking of the Olympian gods of the Greeks (who had a lot of deities)

> The Maya took that one. And the Egyptians took 7
> ... well why do you suppose they did that Byrd ?

Because you can fit 7 palms into a cubit length. If 6 palms fit there, they would have used 6.


> Man and 22/7 ths

Makes no sense, that one.

> Music and 7 notes in a scale

Depending on which scale you pick. In reality, the number of notes in a scale varies between 5 and 144
[en.wikipedia.org]


> And The Solar System ... to be posted eventually.

This sounds less like a topic for Ancient Egypt and more for AGN.

-- Byrd
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