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The Bent is an excellent example - when they added the "girdle" they didn't put it on good foundations so it sunk ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
There were some things that had their own glyphs iirc - AFAIK there wasn't one for Pi ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Ah, you're talking about Gillings who wrote the definitive book on the subject Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
I doubt it. He'd been dead for several years before either of those were produced. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
You don't build good pyramids on sand ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Dave L Wrote: > I don't have any desire to continue wasting my > time correcting your errors at the moment, Because you can't ! All you've got is argument from (inappropriate or superseded) authority. > but let > me just point out your geatest flaw, which is the > same flaw that all of the Philologists followed > Neugebauer have made. Y-a-w-n... Thosby John Wall - Ancient History
I don't think 22/7 was a "magic number" for the AEs ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
I've just checked the "British Museum Dictionary" and the "Oxford Encyclopedia" and Neugebauer isn't referenced in the "Mathematics" sections - but Gillings is. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Considering that the first one works out at 3.96+ fingers I'd expect that to be 4 ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Even so it'd be reasonably difficult to get an accurate value imho. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
From what I've seen they were mainly interested in areas and volumes - and they managed to get those without going via the circumference. If one of the two options for MMP 10 is correct they had a value of 256/81 for Pi but we'll never be certain until another copy turns up. Unfortunately the numerological belief system needs 22/7 ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Dave L Wrote: > Oh, well the synopsis from Amazon says: > > "The author quotes and discusses interpretations > of such authors as Eisenlohr, Griffith, Hultsch, > Peet, Struce, Neugebauer, Chace, Glanville, van > der Waerden, Bruins, Gillings, and others. He also > also considers studies of more recent authors such > as Couchoud, Caveing, and Guillemot. "by John Wall - Ancient History
You'll find me in Anthony's bathroom - having a Pi** ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Dave L Wrote: > Why should I have to repeat the facts every time > you blindly deny they even exist? If you can't accept that measurements of buildings are not the way to establish mathematical capabilities then you're beyond hope... Perhaps I should find the link about Anthony's bathroom.... > You seem to have one single book on AE mathematics > that you baseby John Wall - Ancient History
You haven't produced any facts, just pathetic bleating about "the architecture". Your "experts", I'm afraid, haven't studied the texts; that's where the facts are. Your inability to recognise that has been established, and repeatedly reinforced, since the first day you posted here. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
So, you can't produce any evidence and have only got argument from (non)authority. Now, there's a surprise. Why don't you tell us - again - about Petrie's knighthood, how he was the "father of Egyptology", a Professor, spent time wandering around Giza with a tape measure, etc.... Pretty pathetic all round. Nuff said (c). Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Yes, a proper one. One that doesn't peddle ethnocentric numerological drivel. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Nope. But I'm sure you can find another weird and wonderful way of annoying the mathematically challenged. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
A community group has produced a modern version of the children's tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears - in which Goldilocks receives an Asbo.by John Wall - Humanities
The Khufu inscription was reported in Egyptian Archaeology a little while ago. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
What's an "anomalies researcher" ? Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
I've just noticed (another) piece of hilarity We're told: "...it is very, very, probable that they were using a 7 part cubit precisely because when you carry out this procedure without a divided rod, and you check the 'leftover' bit against the rod, it is very precisely 1/7th of the rod." but we've also been told: "If you swept out a circle inby John Wall - Ancient History
And why would they want to ? Oh, they wouldn't.... Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
The suggestion was: "If you swept out a circle in the sand using a 7 part cubit, it would be childs play to measure round it and see the circumference fell right on the 1st palm of the 4th cubit." How do you measure a curving circumference with a straight cubit rod ? You'd have to do it with a cord and then measure the cord. Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
I can see it being quite difficult to measure a circle in the sand - particularly with something straight like a cubit. Or did they have bendy ones ? Putting a cord round something like that would also be somewhat fiddly, a column (assuming it was circular) would be easier. We all know the source of the nonsense... Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
Dave L Wrote: > Buts it's not correct. > > 3 cubits 3 digits is 3.107 - a (relatively large) > difference of 1.1%. Most unlikely to be noticed in practice. > 3 cubits 1 palm, which is what they used, Evidence ? Oh, there isn't any... Now, there's a surprise.... > is > 3.1428, a difference of only 0.04%. > > You'd need to reach aby John Wall - Ancient History
You suggested I was a pyramidiot ! Johnby John Wall - Ancient History
....anything, even the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, is possible... Johnby John Wall - Ancient History