Also massively overengineering things and wasting a lot of time.
It is completely possible to build stuff without any math whatsoever if the community of builders copies what they did last time, makes minor adjustments when it doesn't work and keeps an oral history.
Of course, the constructions will be overengineered, not really of industrial volume and the community will believe a lot of things that are not true. And any attempts to be innovative will usually be expensive disasters.
Don't forget all the unstable buildings fell down a long time ago and we don't remember them.
At least three pyramids in Egypt had major structural failures. There was a lack of understanding of how the weight on top can produce an outward push below.
roenxi|2 years ago
It is completely possible to build stuff without any math whatsoever if the community of builders copies what they did last time, makes minor adjustments when it doesn't work and keeps an oral history.
Of course, the constructions will be overengineered, not really of industrial volume and the community will believe a lot of things that are not true. And any attempts to be innovative will usually be expensive disasters.
Don't forget all the unstable buildings fell down a long time ago and we don't remember them.
Animats|2 years ago