Labyrinth Story 7: Pythagorus

It became clear to me that the most important aspect of the labyrinth building at this point was to make the perimeter square and level.

We spent days shoveling and measuring re-measuring.

I had remembered enough from high school geometry and watching carpenters build foundations that I needed to get the diagonal just right, and that it was the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides

Finally something I had learned in high school was useful!

We needed a 57 feet diagonal from corner to corner.

It was amazing how many times we had to move the stakes to make it just right.

A bit of surveying experience sure would have come in handy on this project, but they don’t teach that in high school either.

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