Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid volume ‘formulas’ of 1850 BCE

Figures & data

Figure 1. Symmetric truncated pyramid with an added top pyramid.

Figure 2. From Shutler (2009, 349). I have added the bold arrow from (c) to (d) to Shutler’s picture, replacing an erroneous arrow in Shutler which goes from (c) to (e).

Shutler, Paul, ‘The problem of the pyramid or Egyptian mathematics from a postmodern perspective’, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40 (2009), 341–352.

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