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A new look at the Egyptian pyramids from the camel of the 21st century

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A new look at the Egyptian pyramids from the camel of the
21st century.
A. Yurkin
The pictures of pyramids are taken from Internet. Many thanks for authors of these pictures.
The usual pyramid, for example, the Cheops pyramid in Egypt, or the pyramid on a one-dollar bill of the
USA, is half the geometric Plato figure of the octahedron. Moreover, all the pyramids shown in the figures
are made up of large stones of cubic shape.
However, in accordance with the theory of the great German mathematician Felix Klein, the Octahedron
(consisting of two pyramids) is dual to the cube.
In our constructions, our octahedron also consists of small cubes, as well as the Cheops pyramid, but all the
cubes that make up our octahedron are rotated 45 degrees relative to the base of the octahedron
(pyramid). This is the main difference. In our constructions, the octahedron is indeed dual to the cube.
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