Book People Archive

Re: Square root of four!!!!


Well folks, this is highly entertaining stuff. If I were asked what the
square root of 4 was to a million places, I would say it was 2.0000...
...and ask you to fill in the rest of the decimal places yourself while
I got on with some worthy task!!! How about teasing your brains with the
fact that the ratio of the height of the Great Pyramid to its circumference
is 1/Pi to a fair degree of accuracy...how did they do that? 
Regards
Tony Kline

[Moderator: Tony Kline later sent me a correction that the ratio is 1/(2Pi).
 The claim seems to have first appeared in John Taylor's _The Great Pyramid:
 Why Was It Built and Who Built It?_ (1859), a book whose claims have
 prompted nearly 150 years worth of various speculative and skeptical
 followups.  Taylor's book does not appear to have gone on-line yet.

 (I may skip forwarding additional followups on this thread
 if it gets any more difficult than this to bring in a connection to 
 on-line books.  :-) - JMO]