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OBSERVATJONS KEGAEDING PYRAMID NUMBERS. 



NOTE." 



^ Height proportion may have been 

 2 selected because 3 expresses the 

 number of dimensions in a cube : 

 and 1 ~ 2 exactly expresses the 

 relative elevation surface of a 

 triangle and square resting upon 

 a common base and of equal ver- 

 tical height at its maximum, in 

 a vertical line drawn at right 

 angles to base line. 



Princijjal unit of measurement in 



inches 25-^ =: 

 Nearly equal to existing cubit 

 in Egypt. 



lOOOR 



12-2 or 144 



NOTE- 



12 



'^ most probably was adopted as a 

 divisor, because curiously enough 

 the actual number of square cubes 

 contained in a pyramid of even 

 numbers, which most nearly 

 approaches the number of days 

 in a year, is 364, and the base of 

 such pyramid or 1st layer contains 

 12 X 12 cubes or 144 : the second 

 layer in importance succeeds it 

 with 10 X 10 cubes or 100 (see 

 plan). 



lOOOR 



6. Cubits in circuit of pyramid, No. 1440 z= ^02 



lOOOOE lOOOOR 

 or 



lOOOOE-f-12? 25 



lOOOOR 



6. Ditto in each side (mean) 360. | ^-p^^,^ J ~r 4 



» TT •. -. lOOOOR 



7. Unit or year or 1 =1 ^ or 3 



lOOOOR 



V7-^ 



V7-' 



7-2 49 

 Days in Week or 7 =: -=- or y 



