Occasionally I write up a “dossier” on a particular number that I think is noteworthy. I’ve done so with three “Mayan” “wonder numbers” that I stumbled across while working with the dimensions of outer pyramid temple doors at Tikal.
Sounds incredibly boring, right? I’d have thought so too once, but if you’ll humor me for a minute here that just maybe I am onto something with this work, you may be seeing what no human beings have seen in a very long time. You may be seeing history in the making, and receiving an inheritance from your very own ancestors that flies straight in the face of the devastating prejudice that still tries to bog down mankind in spite of even our most noble efforts thus far to rise above it.
When it comes to the ancients, even our greatest luminaries such as Flinders Petrie or Alexander Thom may have never the dreamed the half of what Thom’s “Stone age Einstiens” were really capable of, and the ancients themselves may still be victims of their own efforts to be accessible.
Ancient or not, “rocket science” isn’t a light subject, and if they do something simple to help us get a foot in the door, there’s a great risk we may mistake them as simple-minded for it. The King’s Chamber inside the Great Pyramid is a great example of this – in Royal Cubits, it’s an extremely simple-minded 10 by 20 Royal Cubits, yet the right choice of a height of alternative metrological unit such as Remen, Palestine Cubit, or Megalithic Yard, might quickly turn this simple thing into a true mathematical treasure.
The same may be true of a number of Egyptian pyramids, with simple-minded proportions such as base lengths like 100, 150, 200, 250, or 300 Royal Cubits. It may be the crowning jewel of their capstones that turns them into “rocket science” in spite of themselves, or it may be an alternate choice of metrological unit to measure them with. 150 Royal Cubits may be an attractive choices because in feet, this writes the length of the year in days across the diagonal of the pyramid base, quickly drawing attention to the fact that there is a conversation about calendars taking place within the proportions of the architecture.
Anyway, about “Mayan” “wonder numbers”…
I put “Mayan” in quotation marks, because the three numbers in question weren’t restricted to the Maya, they’re found easily enough in the already established models I have for Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid if we simply exercise curiosity.
I put “wonder number” in quotation marks because these three aren’t the usual wonder numbers, a term I would normally reserve for numbers that operate well at higher powers, unlocking whole series of important data points, revealing to us whole runs of important numbers.
These three “Mayan” “wonder numbers” are different. They’re not great multipliers past the first power ordinarily, but they’re quite impressive in combination with wonder numbers that are good multipliers to higher powers.
What we learn about these numbers continues to accumulate, including that the same three “Mayan” “wonder numbers” are part of the story here.
Recently in revisiting data on Megalithic Sites, mainly Professor Thom’s, and exploring Stockdale and Harris’ Megalithic Foot of ~1.178 feet, I began to encounter, repeatedly, a mysterious number that is slightly less than that or that the numbers similar to ~1.178 that I use.
This includes that at Avebury, Professor Thom finds in the geometry, an arc of length 117.31 Megalithic Yards (Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, pg 34, Table 4.2) so it’s seemingly right in the actual data, but I’ve also been stumbling over something about 1.173-1.174 as a ratio lately as well.
Here is a dossier I wrote about a number in the 1.174 range that might be what we are meant to be thinking of:
1.174718783
Okay, there may be more of his gang at large, but the suspect has been taken into custody and questioned, and a few things have been revealed.
The number works with the radian, with a number of planet cycle values, with the SMMY, with three “Mayan” wonder numbers, and with the Incidental Meg Yard. There are a number of chances of finding it at Stonehenge (including via 1.618829140) although it hasn’t yet been shown to be prominent there.
360 / 1.174718783 = 1 / (120 x 2.719256444)
1.174718783 = (cube root equatorial circumference 24901.19743) / polar circumference 24858.38047
1.174718783 = generic spherical volume / 3.160557714
(1.917264117 / 2) / 1.174718783 = 120 x 2.720174976
1.174718783 links (18 / Lunar Year) to Jupiter Orbital Period as 4329.29292
Relationship to 3 “Mayan wonder numbers” (1.021521078, 1.025135527, and 1.424280285):
1.174718783 = 12 / 1.021521078 = 1.673128808 / 1.424280285 = (1 / (57.29577951 x 2)) / 1.025135527
1.174718783 / (57.29577951^4) = 1.09004238 = 2.921060646 x Pi
Okay, here’s where it gets even more interesting
(57.29577951^2) / ht Cheops pyramidion or missing apex section = 1.174718783
1.174718783 = 432 Incidental Megalithic Yards / 10^n
1.177245771^2 / 1.179778193 = 1.174718783
It turns out that 1.174718783 belongs to a rather illustrious (Pi / 3) chain, and like a Mayan wonder number, comes in surprisingly low or high in the series. In fact, this is essentially a classic Mayan series slightly altered. Normally the series starts as (1 / 1.021521079) x ((Pi / 3)^n)
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^1) = 615.0813160 x 2
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^2) = 128.8223297
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^3) = 1.349024282
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^4) = 1.412694924 = 1.718873385 / 1.216733693
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^5) = 1.479370665 Squared Munck Meg Yard x 2
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^6) = 15.49193338 sqrt 240
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^7) = 16.22311470 “Alternate Phi”
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^8) = 169.8880599 = 2 / 1.177245771
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^9) = 1.779063603
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^10) = 1.863031048 = 2 / 1.073519414
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^11) = 2 / 1.025135528
1.174718783 x ((Pi / 3)^12) = 24 / 1.174718784 (not a typographical error) = 1.021521079 x 2
1.174718783 x 2.719256444 = 2.777777777 = 1 / 360
1.174718783 also participates in a display of the exponential value of the VOP / Petrie Stonehenge unit
1.174718783 / (224.8373808^1) = 5.224748566
1.174718783 / (224.8373808^2) = 2.323789999 = sqrt 540, another of the important square roots
1.174718783 / (224.8373808^3) = 1.033542559 (to Munck this was huge – sometime I will remember to explain how that is built into the sarcen circle)
1.174718783 / (224.8373808^4) = (1 / 2.719256444) / 16
So I still don’t really understand 1.174718783 that well or how to use it – and absolutely no sign yet of 1.174718783 being useful above the first power – but it does seem to show a substantial amount of reason for being on closer inspection.
That’s the story of the number 1.174718783. It’s certainly come a long way from the single alias listed in my “catalog” several months ago. Just how far will this “wonder number” go? Stay tuned!
–Luke Piwalker
Luke Piwalker 