Pyramid (Long Beach, California)

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The Pyramid at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) peaks at 194.14 feet above sea level (same as the elevation of the Giza plateau, on which sits it's big cousin) and measures 345 feet on each of its four sides at its perfectly square base. CSULB's Pyramid is one of three large pyramid structures in the United States--Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, and the Pyramid in Memphis, and the only pyramid on a campus. The Pyramid has 377 ridges per side; a numerator in the fraction that the ancients used to derive pi: 377/120. CSULB sits on 7th Street, where Cal Rte 22 overlaps 7th St. for about a mile. The ancients also derived pi with the fraction 22/7. The difference between the two fractions, 355/113, was the third method the ancients used to derive pi. A 1978 CSULB graduate, whose 3.55 GPA consisted of 113 units of A, wrote a book about The Pyramid at CSULB.

The Pyramid sits at the heart of what was a Tongva Indian village named Puvungna; meaning, "gathering place of a crowd in a pyramidal form"!

The Pointe Conference Conference Center, Walter Pyramid, California-State University - Long Beach, Aetherton St & Merriam Way. www.csulb.edu/divisions/students/housing/conference_ser...