Talk:Pyramid inch

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Sacred Jewish Inch? If this isn't a joke, the article really needs more information... 81.232.72.53 01:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

This looks to me like balderdash, but maybe it's not. I couldn't find any useful information on the internets, but it is mentioned: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0118421/py2.html --Smajie

It does sound like a joke... it made me chuckle anyway. (I had my sacred inch removed too, and I'm not even jewish!) Anyway, the figure 1/25 of a cubit is not mentioned at all in the cubit article. NB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

 Trivia for the day... 1 inch = 254 000 000 Å

--JAMES

You are all quite right to be suspicious. I hope my new edits clarify the situation; feel free to ask for more information. Also, I'm moving this to "Pyramid inch" since that is by far the most common name used for it. One thing I did not determine is exactly where the value 1.00106 comes from; probably it is a back-calculation designed to make some approximate numerical coincidence into an exact coincidence. McKay 10:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

To answer my own question, 1.00106 inches is 1/500,000,000 of the Earth's polar diameter. What, you may ask, does the earth's polar diameter have to do with it? This is a good illustration of how this "science" works. It goes like this: the side of the pyramid is 9140 inches, so all four sides total 36560 inches, which is suspiciously close to 36524 (days in a century), therefore it must have been exactly 36524 inches according to the inch used then, so the inch used then (the "pyramid inch") must have been 36560/36524=1.0009856 modern inches, which means that the polar diameter of the earth is 500,038,788 pyramid inches, which is suspiciously close to 500,000,000 pyramid inches, therefore it must be exactly 500,000,000 pyramid inches, so the pyramid inch must really be 1/500,000,000 of the polar diameter, which is 1.00106 modern inches, so the side of the pyramid must really be 9140.68 modern inches. The coincidences now all come out exactly, which proves they are correct. Get it? The actual mean side of the pyramid is 9069 inches, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good trick. McKay 15:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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