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C) I'd bet real money that the authors will never in 1,000 years find this forum post.
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Unless they want to; in which case it takes 0.24 seconds.
https://www.google.com/search?q=http...Selvakumar.pdf
I try to think 'muddy pig' and nothing happens.
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Originally Posted by aardvarcus
Just because they didn’t have calculators and libraries of textbooks doesn’t mean they didn’t understand. They didn’t have to know calculus or be able to solve differential equations, they just needed to understand the products they were using. Stone isn’t that complicated, but they used it to do complicated things. In fact I bet they understood their resources and products better than most present engineers who take the immense wealth of knowledge available at their fingertips for granted.
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Originally Posted by Xist
I really do not think that the pyramids are a good example. Mountains are naturally occurring and generally do not fall down, either.
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I'm in error, the better example would be the
Collapsed Pyramid.
The original construction consisted of battered, contiguous columns (built on solid bedrock). Then someone decided to convert it from a stepped pyramid to a flat-sided pyramid by adding onto a foundation of sand.
Probably bureaucrats.
Also, it now appears that the Babylonians used the principle of area under a curve, a basic tenet of the Calculus.
This Babylonian Astronomy Text Changes History.
OTOH the pyramids sure could use a 4% radius on their edges.
