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[IDNeon]

So what happens when you have to build an actual ramp and it doesn't look flat at all?

The ability to abstract is the point of all education. Generalization is the goal of mathematics.

Some things are more easily understood if not abstracted or generalized but then how are you any better than a sheep herder counting stones to keep track of all his sheep? 

A sheep herder would never make it to the Moon.

Remember. Egyptian mathematics was binary based and ingeniously simple for mental calculations.

Look what they accomplished with it.

Absolutely nothing. 

The pyramids got us as close to powering a light bulb as it did to getting us to the moon.

If the pyramid were built atop Everest then maybe some new accomplishment could be recorded in the history of the world.

Edited May 1, 2021 by IDNeon

[swansont]

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