how to build pyramids?
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Pyramids in Egypt served as tombs, initially only for kings and close members of the royal family, but eventually came to be used (in much smaller forms) by the general populace.\n\nThe pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.\n\nIn the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.\nWhile it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.\nIn the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.\n\nPyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.\n\nIn the New Kingdom, pyramids came to be part of tombs for reasonably wealthy private individuals - frequently added to the exterior portico area of rock-cut cliff tombs or appearing as architectural elements of brick constructed tombs in varous parts of Egypt.\n\nThe Napatan and Meroitic kingdoms in Nubia (modern Sudan) also used the pyramid for royal burials at sites such as El-Kurru and Nuri. While the Napatan kings ruled Egypt for a time during the 25th Dynasty and were buried in pyramids, those pyramids were located in Nubia proper.\n\nPyramid construction relied on highly skilled teams of workmen who were housed nearby the pyramid fields - in the Old Kingdom located in the general vicinity of the ancient capital Memphis at sites now knows as Giza, Saqqara, Meidum, and Dashur. A few pyramids in the Middle Kingdom were located near the Fayum, roughly Middle Egypt.\nIn addition to the full-time workmen, there was likely a seasonal labor requirement asked of the lower classes of Egyptian society - a sort of taxation, often referred to by the French term "corvee" labor. This is distinct from slavery. While the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (writing over a thousand years after the construction of the pyramids at Giza) reported that he was told the pyramids at Giza were constructed by slaves, Herodotus was wrong about any number of things in his reports and may not even have visited Egypt in perso
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You need to get a little more specific in terms of what kind of "3d equivalent" you want.  Two kinds of 3d solids you can form easily from 2d polygons (closed shapes made of line segments) are prisms and pyramids.  You make a prism of any 2d shape by taking 2 copies of the flat shape, one above the other, and connecting the corresponding vertices (corners) with edges (lines).  From this perspective, a cube, is a square prism.  A triangular prism looks a little like a tent, with two triangles (top and bottom) and three rectangles or squares around the sides.  To make a pyramid, choose any 2d shape as the base, and then a point above the base as the top, and radiate edges down from the top to all the base's corners.  There are other "3d equivalents", so if you're thinking of something else, let me/us know.\n\nYou also need to be more specific about what kind(s) of sides interest you: edges (1d lines) or faces (2d flat surfaces).  The "sides" of a 2d shape are all edges, but 3d shapes like cubes have both edges and faces (a cube has 12 edges and 6 faces).  Any prism made from a polygon with N "sides" (edges) will have 3N edges (N on the top, N on the bottom, and N more connecting top and bottom) and N+2 faces (N around the sides plus top and bottom).  Any pyramid made from a polygon with N "sides" (edges) will have 2N edges (N around the base and N more reaching up to the top point) and N+1 faces (N around the sides plus the base).\n\nDoes this do it?
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sphere, cube, pyramid, cilinder
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The first thing is to collect together a range of different wood thicknesses. You need a good supply of kindling (bark, very small twigs, etc. Build a pyramid, and at the centre of the pyramid put paper and bark. Build up round this using twigs and sticks up to a finger in diameter. Put a few slightly thicker sticks round the outside.\nLight the match and put it inside the pyramid so it lights the paper. Gradually add thicker twigs as the wood catches.
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Pyramids are among the largest man-made constructions.\n\nAncient monuments\n\nThe oldest pyramid is that of Hellinikon in Greece, dating from 2,720 BC. There are more than 16 pyramids spread all over Greece. (See Hellenic Pyramids.)\n \nThe pyramids of Giza. The largest pyramids are Menkaure's pyramid, Khafre's pyramid, and the Great Pyramid. Pyramid-shaped structures were built by many ancient peoples. The most famous are the Egyptian pyramids — huge pyramids built of brick or stone, used as tombs for pharaohs. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest in Egypt and tallest in the world. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times. The ancient Egyptians smoothed the faces of their pyramids with gold and polished white limestone, though many of the stones used for the purpose have fallen out over the centuries.\n\nTo the south of Egypt the Nubians also built pyramids. They built far more than the Egyptians, but they are much smaller. The Nubian pyramids were constructed at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings. Pyramids were built in Nubia up until the AD 300s.\n\nThe Mesopotamians also built step pyramids, or ziggurats. In ancient times these were brightly painted. Since they were constructed of mud-brick, little remains of them. The biblical Tower of Babel is believed to be a Babylonian ziggurat.\n\nA number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. Mesoamerican pyramids were also usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuilcuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an ancient eruption of Xictli.\n\nThere are other pyramid-shaped ancient monuments found in parts of Asia.\n\nPyramids were also found in Greece. One of these pyramids in Greece is older than the pyramid of Cheops, as it was dated to 2720 BC.\n\nThere is a pyramid in ancient Rome. The 27-meter-high Pyramid of Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.\n\nThere are quite a few flat-top pyramids in China. The First Emperor of Qin (221 B.C.~), with the terracotta warriors in vicinity, was burried under a large pyramid outside modern day Xi'an. In the following centuries a dozen more Chinese royalties of Han Dynasty were also burried under flat top pyramidal earth works.\n\nIn October 2005, archaeologist Semir Osmanagic announced that a hill near the Bosnian town of Visoko conceals a pyramid 100 metres high and perhaps 12,000 years old. If confirmed, this would be the oldest pyramid in Europe, as well as the world.\n\nModern pyramids\n \nA modern pyramid, built as a feature and as an entrance to the Louvre Art Gallery. \n \nThe CSU Long Beach Pyramid. An example of a modern pyramid can be found in Paris, France, in front of the Louvre Museum.\n\nThe 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee (built 1991) was the home court for the University of Memphis men's basketball program, and the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies until 2004.\n\nThe Walter Pyramid, home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the California State University, Long Beach, campus in California, United States, is an 18-story-tall blue pyramid.\n\nThe Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, United States, is a 30-story pyramid.
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Let's see now. \n\nIf you want to build one storied house, you would need,\n2 cards. (obviously!)\nIf you want to build two storied house, you would need,\n7 cards.\n\n /&#92; = 2\n _ = 1\n/&#92;/&#92; = 4\n\n\nIf you want to build three storied house, you would need,\n15 cards.\n\n      /&#92; = 2\n      _ = 1\n     /&#92;/&#92; = 4\n     __ = 2\n    /&#92;/&#92;/&#92; = 6\n------------------\nTotal = 15\n\nThe general formula for this would be,\n\n3N-1, where N represents the floor number you want to build.  This formula will give you the cards required for that particular floor.  Now add them up and you got the following.\n\nSigma (1, N) -> 3N-1.\n\nNow let's test this.\n\nTo build a three storied building,\n\nSigma (1, 3) -> 3N-1, which means the following.\n\nFirst floor (3(1)-1) + Second floor (3(2)-1) + Third floor (3(3)-1) = 2+5+8 = 15 Cards.\n\nFor 25 Stories, you would have to calculate from 1 to 25 just like this.  A scientific calculator can give you the answer right away.\n\nNote:  I used the word Sigma because I don't have any way of using that sign in here.\nI hope this helps!!
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This answer is about pyramids in Egypt. Pyramids were also constructed in ancient Greece and Mesoamerica. Flat topped pyramids were constructed in ancient China.\n\nPyramids in Egypt served as tombs, initially only for kings and close members of the royal family, but eventually came to be used (in much smaller forms) by the general populace.\n\nThe pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.\n\nIn the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.\nWhile it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.\nIn the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.\n\nPyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.\n\nIn the New Kingdom, pyramids came to be part of tombs for reasonably wealthy private individuals - frequently added to the exterior portico area of rock-cut cliff tombs or appearing as architectural elements of brick constructed tombs in varous parts of Egypt.\n\nThe Napatan and Meroitic kingdoms in Nubia (modern Sudan) also used the pyramid for royal burials at sites such as El-Kurru and Nuri. While the Napatan kings ruled Egypt for a time during the 25th Dynasty and were buried in pyramids, those pyramids were located in Nubia proper.\n\nPyramid construction relied on highly skilled teams of workmen who were housed nearby the pyramid fields - in the Old Kingdom located in the general vicinity of the ancient capital Memphis at sites now knows as Giza, Saqqara, Meidum, and Dashur. A few pyramids in the Middle Kingdom were located near the Fayum, roughly Middle Egypt.\nIn addition to the full-time workmen, there was likely a seasonal labor requirement asked of the lower classes of Egyptian society - a sort of taxation, often referred to by the French term "corvee" labor. This is distinct from slavery. While the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (writing over a thousand years after the construction of the pyramids at Giza) reported that he
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1- Cub : use a squared sheet, cut 4 squares with length side = 1/3 the length side of the sheet from every corner of the sheet. bend to form the cub.\n2- Cuboid : Use a rectangle sheet, cut 4 squares with the same length side ( the height of the cuboid ) from every corner of the sheet. bend to form the cuboid. \n3- Pyramid : Use a uniform polygon sheet, let the no. of sides is n and its center m, cut one or more triangles of vertex m and its base is one sides of the polygon, bend to form the pyramid\n4- Use a circular sector sheet.
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You read about the Pyramid of Giza at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
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No. Humans built the pyramids. The building of the pyramids was recorded and is not a mystery. People who say that aliens did it are denying humankind of some of their greatest achievements. We're a brilliant species, why not be proud of it?
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i think they are! you hear that they like to build pyramids
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how long have you been working out?\nbecause your strength will not appear over a short period of time\n\nand if you want to increase strength--do as heavy as possible during each set for 5-6 (when you reach failure)5 sets of 5-6 with 2 minutes of rest between each exercise will help you gain strength\n\n--and do pyramid sets--start with low weight 8-10, higher weight 6-8, heaviest weight 4-6, lower weight 6-8, and then even lower weight 8-10--pyramid shape, hence the name pyramids. \n\n\nplus you shouldnt overtrain--and you should eat a lot, rest a lot
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The idea is to build up the corners, you want to get a 2x2x2 corner lined up and then work from there.\n\nHere's a very helpful link\nhttp://lar5.com/cube/
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http://www.jimmyr.com/howtoincreasehits.php
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THERE ARE NO PYRAMIDS ON MARS it is an optical effect caused by shadows also if the aliens built the ones on mars 7000,000 years ago they would not line up exactly with the ones on earth as the earth is constantly shifting and even 10,000 years of movement would put them out by at least a meter.
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Pyramid-shaped structures were built by many ancient civilizations. The most famous are the Egyptian pyramids — huge pyramids built of brick or stone. Standard Archaeology claims that they were used as tombs for pharaohs, however their many surprising features have birthed many alternative theories, particularly since the great pyramids have never yielded a body. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the largest in Egypt and in the world. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times. The ancient Egyptians capped the peaks of their pyramids with gold and covered their faces with polished white limestone, though many of the stones used for the purpose have fallen or been removed for other structures over the millennia.\n\nTo the south of Egypt the Nubians also built pyramids. They built far more than the Egyptians, but they are much smaller. The Nubian pyramids were constructed at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings. Pyramids were built in Nubia up until the AD 300s.\n\nThe Mesopotamians also built step pyramids, or ziggurats. In ancient times these were brightly painted. Since they were constructed of mud-brick, little remains of them. The biblical Tower of Babel is believed to be a Babylonian ziggurat.\n\nA number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. Mesoamerican pyramids were also usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. This pyramid is also considered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world, but it is still being excavated. There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuilcuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an ancient eruption of Xictli.\n\nPyramids in Mexico were considered sacrificial places (used to kill slaves, in worship of their powerful gods).\n\nThere are other pyramid-shaped ancient monuments found in parts of Georgia.\nPyramid of Cestius\nEnlarge\nPyramid of Cestius\n\nThere is a pyramid in ancient Rome. The 27-meter-high Pyramid of Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.\n\nThere are quite a few flat-top pyramids in China. The First Emperor of Qin (221 B.C.~), with the terracotta warriors in vicinity, was buried under a large pyramid outside modern day Xi'an. In the following centuries a dozen more Chinese royalties of Han Dynasty were also buried under flat top pyramidal earth works.
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You can use products like Autocad. It builds floor plans pretty well. But thats for advanced people.\n\nBBut you can download a free tool called SmartDraw. VERY NICE... \n\nTake a look at it, the free link is below