value of pi and 22/7

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com>:

> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:26:03 AM UTC+12, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> If you're building something the size of a pyramid, that could
>> add up to quite a lot of error.
>
> Particularly since so many of their neighbours had worked out how to
> do much better than that, thousands of years earlier...

Width/height ratio of the pyramid of Cheops was so close to π/2 that UFO
enthusiasts were convinced alien technology was used in the construction
of the pyramids.

The whole story involving cubits, drums and fingers is here: <URL:
http://doernenburg.alien.de/alternativ/pyramide/pyr12_e.php>.

   This is the definite proof, that no god, astronaut or Atlantean
   wizard had any intention of coding Pi into one of the many pyramids
   erected in Egypt. Pi is simply a result of the measurement methods
   used in old Egypt!


Marko