How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?

Re:How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid? by soperj on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:42PM (#23345419)

Sometimes writing it down means very little. Like Perelman's Poincaré conjecture solution. It took some of the best mathematicians years to even prove it being correct.

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Re:How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid? by blackrock on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:02PM (#23345532)

Didn’t the Egyptians write it down? But we still have no idea how to understand their hieroglyphics. Or how they even figured out their math.

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Re:How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid? by rrmm on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:25PM (#23345686)

Some light info on it: https://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html

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Re:How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid? by bingerman on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:24AM (#23348678)

I don't think they proved the correctness, just read it very thoroughly and were convinced by Perelman's reasoning.

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