Personally I feel that a group could not work on the next layer up until the previous layer was finished.  On this premise build one complete layer per day.  On the first day there are a possible 2058 crews.  The square of that number is 45 and some change.  Therefor at day one 2025 crews would be working on the pyramid.  33 crews would go home along with the slaves that did not form a crew.  Using this idea and a base of 45 I ran out of slaves at day 3 (not enough crews to build 1 complete level)  Changing the base width to 44 stones I ran out at day 8.  A complete pyramid could be build if the base was 43.  Thus the height would be 129 meters and 7566 slaves would remain.

I am sure that a maximum pyramid could be built assuming that the part of the pyramid was not being built over a base that was still being completed; or percentage of crews working on next level is equal to percentage of base completed the previous day.  Will have to keep fiddling with that idea.

Posted by Christian on 2004-11-05 13:33:04