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Those same sources will also tell you that Egyptians did not have angular measure. They had the "sekhed", a gradient for measuring slope. How then were they ab
by zarmin 7y ago
Those same sources will also tell you that Egyptians did not have angular measure. They had the "sekhed", a gradient for measuring slope.
How then were they able to derive pi and phi, which the GP is inextricably related to? (https://www.goldennumber.net/phi-pi-great-pyramid-egypt/ https://www.goldennumber.net/phi-pi-great-pyramid-egypt/)
I have some theories on this, but they are more speculative and less substantiated than what's been discussed so far.
- ceejayoz 7y agoMathematical concepts are seen regularly in nature, with no intelligence or purpose required. That humans can mimic this without necessarily having the mathematical formulas is not shocking.