At 12:28 PM 1/10/07, you wrote: >In Islamic societies, where digitectomies are often performed, the >traditional definition of "cubit" is highly susceptible to variations. > >Fermat's Theorem takes a different approach to "cubit" but it is yet to >be proven. > >The histories suggest that the cubit is an ancient Egyptian measurement >adopted for measuring the length of pythons because of the ubiquity of >elbows and manual digits and the close approximation to the bending >radius of mature pythons. Since pi had not yet been discovered, the >cubit was widely used. > >Incidentally, if you have a square that is one foot in length on each >side, the length of that diagonal of that square is exactly one cubit as >defined by the flooring installers convention of 1954. This can be >proven using the Pythagorean theorem of right triangles. >12x12+12x12=17x17 (give or take). > >There is no need to thank me for this exposition.
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