Seked
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- References
- Further reading
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Seked (or seqed) is an ancient Egyptian term describing the inclination of the triangular faces of a right pyramid. The system was based on the Egyptians' length measure known as the royal cubit. It was subdivided into seven palms, each of which was sub-divided into four digits.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seked” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.