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I would have liked for the story to have noted, at least in passing, that 3³+4³+5³ = 6³.

(I found this in the brilliantly mad "The celestial inspirations for Giza, Stonehenge and Washington D.C." by Robin Spivey:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robin-Spivey-2/publicat...

Along with that, the Great Pyramid's latitude in degrees matches, to 6 digits, the speed of light in m/s divided by 10000; the King's chamber is precisely 5π/3 and also 2φ² meters wide; and that latitude in radians is π/6. Suffice to say that numerical coincidences everywhere are more the norm than the exception.)

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