User talk:73.152.189.116

Kepler triangle
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Kepler triangle, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:08, 22 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @David EppsteinI simply meant that in a right triangle with legs of 11 and 14 the ratio of hypotenuse to the shorter leg is about 1.6186, very close to the 'golden ratio', 1.6180. Do not really need a reference, as it is just algebra. 73.152.189.116 (talk) 19:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ALL of the crank explanations for pyramid dimensions are very close to the same dimensions. As the article already clearly explains. That's exactly why it is not possible to use the similarity of their dimensions to distinguish among the different varieties of crankery. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:14, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @David Eppstein OK, but it is interesting to consider that the designers of the big pyramid used proportions that would optimize the usable inside volume. This is not numerology or whatever. 73.152.189.116 (talk) 16:56, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You are correct that this style of crankery, in which people invent explanations for why some shape is optimal according to some criterion and then decide based on that shape alone, disconnected from the historical record of other Egyptian mathematics and architecture, that the Egyptians must have intended to optimize that criterion, is not called numerology. Or whatever. It is called pyramidology. More specifically, metrological pyramidology. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:59, 25 January 2023 (UTC)