• billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      The recent “Fall of Civilizations” podcast talks a lot about the history of the pyramids. They may still have known a lot about geometery, but the slopes and angles involved in the pyramid building seem to have been trial and error as much as anything

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        6 months ago

        A few days ago I was building a Lego set and had to go back 10 steps because of a mistake and that made me very angry.

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        6 months ago

        The pyraamids are way more complex and accurate as been build only by trial and error. It’s architects knew exactly what they were doing and also geometric theorema way more complex as the one of “Phytagoras”, as shown also in other ancient buildings, which are still difficult to reproduce by modern architects.

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          6 months ago

          What makes you say that? I’m not an expert. Accurate geometry or not, the pyramids are pretty cool. What about them means it couldn’t have been trial and error?

          https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/pyramid

          About halfway up, however, the angle of incline decreases from over 51 degrees to about 43 degrees, and the sides rise less steeply, causing it to be known as the Bent Pyramid. The change in angle was probably made during construction to give the building more stability

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            6 months ago

            Yes, the bent pyramid, but that say nothing, maybe simply a design of an bad architect. They always exist, even today.