Great Pyramid Comprehension thru Magic squares can be seen as poetry in numbers. Many years of study are necessary to understand how they were and could be viewed and applied in the remote past- even dating pre-Great Pyramid.
Revivingantiquity.com (this website) offers a handbook as to how lost civilizations used magic squares for the purpose of balance, harmony and peace. Separation of corners and gnomons, are but one of the myriad of ways. Egypt’s Great Pyramid favored the way just described.
Working the lower left corner of four numbers by multiplication we have: 3 x 5 x 8 x 1 = 120. Perform the same mathematical operation to the remaining five numbers called the gnomon: 8 x 3 x 4 x 9 x 2 = 3024.
The square based of the Great Pyramid has four sides with an average length of 756 feet each. 4 X 756 = 3024. Using feet as the measure, we have an equality between the perimeter of the Great Pyramid in feet and the described gnomon. So where is the unit called foot of 12 inches? In antiquity zero was not considered a number, but a synthetic construct. How ? Any two opposite numbers on the above magic square total 10, i.e. 2 + 8, or 9 + 1, or 3 + 7 et cetera. It was not a number by itself and therefore not a real number. Thus, the product of the corner four numbers that total 120 can be read in terms of real numbers as 12. The foot of 12 inches measures the 3024 foot perimeter. Those who think the inch is an anachronism should remember that the British Museum has several specimens of the standard unit of weight in antiquity which was one cubic inch of gold. A cube has 12 edges x one inch per side = one foot in edges. Conclusion: This particular arrangement of the 3 x 3 magic square as to corner and gnomon guided the measure of the Great Pyramid in both number and unit of measure.
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Gnomon versus Corner
External link to author John Michell who started me on my journey: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-John-Michell-Reader/John-Michell/9781620554159
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