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How do we know they’re not half buried cubes?
Could you bury a cube to look like a pyramid? Wondering if my spatial awareness sucks but I don’t think you could. Wouldn’t at least some of the points converge at right angles?
Don’t know what I choose to overthink these things.
Yes, but it would be an imperfect three-sided pyramid, unlike most pyramids that have ever been built that were four-sided.
You kind of could, but the side underground wouldn't mirror the top
I still don’t think the angle at the top of the triangle would be correct. It would be 90^o at the top rather than a more acute angle.
It'd be a wide pyramid, sure. But nothing says they need to be skinny.
#pyramidAtAnySize
That’s true.
#noMoreWideShamingPyramids
You're right, but it's not really about the angle. Talking geometry, the pyramids of Egypt are 'square pyramids'. Four triangles on top of a square base, meeting at a point, or vertice. A cube, however, is six squares at right angles to each other, three faces meeting in vertices. The point at the top of a pyramid will look a lot different than a corner of a cube, because it's a completely different number of planes meeting.
And they were absolutely right!
Mastaba's all grown up.