Happy New Year everyone! I’ve ended up with a few mathematical thoughts the past several days that I thought I might share. First, a bit of follow up – several posts ago I implied that as far as ancient meters go, 3.289868134 might take precedence even over the well-pedigreed figure 3.282806350, because it’s been observedContinue reading “Miscellaneous Metrological Musings”
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Musings on an Ancient Meter
Many references have been made to possible values for an ancient meter. An ancient Meter very much like the modern meter is an idea that seems to occur to numerous researchers into ancient mathematics and metrology, myself included. I’ve been experimenting with the idea for more years than I’d like to admit, but it stillContinue reading “Musings on an Ancient Meter”
On Thom’s Flattened Megalithic Rings (updated)
Also, I don’t know why it never occurred to me before in the ages I’ve been looking at Thom’s flattened ring types, but I’ve always looked at the ratios as he gives them(Megalithic Sites in Britain, p 28-29) Type A Perimeter / major diameter = 3.0591 (3.057985078 = inner sarcen circle circumf. / 100)Minor diameter /Continue reading “On Thom’s Flattened Megalithic Rings (updated)”
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