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Some Notes On the Concept of Seqed and Sloping Span Length in Ancient Egypt

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 Seqed or the so-called Seked is an ancient Egyptian expression indicating the 
concept of the inclination, slope, slant or tendency in a particular direction that 
diverges or causes to diverge from the vertical or horizontal position, it also indicates 
the angle at which a straight line or level is inclined to another. In ancient Egypt, it 
points out the inclination of the triangular faces of a right pyramid. The slope length is 
calculated through the Pythagorean Theorem, which is completed by multiplying the 
square root of a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles (the 
square) and by the sum of the squared width and the squared height. The Pythagorean 
theorem is calculated the sloping span length, where the slope length is studied using 
the vertical distance is the rise and the horizontal distance is the run, which is rise2 + 
run2 = slope length2
. Mathematics is the abstract science of an arithmetical value, 
expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in 
counting and making calculations and for showing order in a series or for 
identification (Number), the amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not 
usually estimated by spatial measurement (Quantity), and the dimensions of height, 
depth, and width within which all things exist and move, or the position of two or 
more items at a distance from one another (Space). Mathematics can be studied in its 
own right as pure mathematics, or as it is applied to other disciplines such as physics 
and engineering or the so-called applied mathematics. The ancient Egyptian system 
based on the length measure called the royal cubit, which is subdivided into seven 
palms, where every palm is also sub-divided into four digits or numbers. Therefore, 
the inclination of measured slopes is expressed as the number of horizontal palms and 
digits relative to the rise of every royal cubit. 

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10.21608/ijaswa.2021.192832

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Seqed, Sloping Span Length, Mathematics, Royal Cubit, ancient Egypt

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Ayman

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Waziry

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Professor of Egyptology and Head of the Department of Egyptology - Faculty of Archeology - Fayoum University-Egypt, Main building of Faculty of Archeology

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2021-06-01

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2021-06-01

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2785-9592

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2785-9606

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International Journal of Advanced Studies in World Archaeology

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Some Notes On the Concept of Seqed and Sloping Span Length in Ancient Egypt

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23 Jan 2023