DUNE Wrote:
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> Harte Wrote:
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> > Given that the Egyptians didn't use inches or
> > feet, can you do this with the royal cubit
> (which,
> > BTW, is 20.6102, not 20.619 inches)?
> >
> > Harte
>
> Well what you should have said, there is no
> evidence to date to show that they had a cubit
> that correlates to the inch.
>
> My hypothesis is is that an outside source could
> have used their cubit of the day in the designing
> process that when converted back into the sources
> standard which was equivalent to our modern day
> inch would reveal all the encoded information.
>
> So to be clear, the Egyptian cubit of their day
> may have been used in construction , but the
> designer made sure it could be read and decoded
> back into a future unit that was the same as the
> designers unit, doing so would allow the designer
> to send his knowledge into the future, but then of
> course the question is, how did he know our
> present time period would be working with a unit
> of measure the same as his , my time traveling
> friend !!.

I see. So this guy from the future needed to communicate exactly what with the future he was from?

The square root of 3?

The AE's knew the square root of 3, after a fashion. It is the length of the diagonal of a one by two rectangle.

Harte