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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Rick York wrote:
Yes, that number arising is pure coincidence
Well, actually it's not really coincidence that the ratio of the Egyptian cubit is 0.52 of a meter. However there is nothing mysterious or special about it. I am not sure I conveyed what I am talking about in a clear way.

Here is an absolute fact:

If I gave you only a rope and a rock and asked you to divide the day using only those materials into 24 hours, 1440 minutes and 86400 seconds. When you completed the task your rope would be approximately 1 meter long. The arc of your pendulum would cover ~0.52 of the meter when swinging.

That's all, nothing mysterious.
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