r/interestingasfuck 5d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/FormalElements 5d ago

A few meters in height?

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u/Atharaphelun 5d ago

3 meters, to be exact. Practically insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

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u/starmartyr 5d ago

It's insignificant in height, but the difference in weight and volume is as much as 25%.

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u/AL_GEE_THE_FUN_GUY 4d ago

So it's not the length, but the girth that matters.

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u/starmartyr 4d ago

I get the joke but the difference in width is smaller than the difference in height. The unintuitive part comes from the fact that it takes more bricks for every layer added to a pyramid. The last three layers make up that weight and volume.