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Re: Pyramid Dimension Contradiction
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Originally Posted by slijin
I'm not sure where you're getting 68.9, but that's approximately the angle between the diagonal and the rung when measuring in the plane of a face of the pyramid.
The 60 comes from measuring the angle between the diagonal and the floor (or a plane determined by a set of rungs); the 68 (IIRC, 67.72) comes from projecting that angle onto a vertical plane parallel to an edge of the pyramid base.
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I measured from the diagonal to the pyramid base plate
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