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Hekat
The hekat or heqat (transcribed HqA.t) was an ancient Egyptian volume unit used to measure grain, bread, and beer. It equals 4.8 litres, or about 1.056 imperial gallons, in today's measurements.
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Hekat
The hekat or heqat was an ancient Egyptian volume unit used to measure grain, bread, and beer. It equals 4.8 liters in today's measurements. Until the New Kingdom, the hekat was one tenth of a khar, later one sixteenth; while the New Kingdom oipe contained 4 hekat. It was sub-divided into other units – some for medical prescriptions – the hin, dja and ro. The dja was recently evaluated by Tanja Pommerening in 2002 to 1/64 of a hekat in the MK, and 1/64 of an oipe in the NK, meaning that the dja was denoted by Horus-Eye imagery. It has been suggested by Pommerening that the NK change came about related to the oipe replacing the hekat as the Pharaonic volume control unit in official lists. Hana Vymazalova evaluated the hekat unit in 2002 within the Akhmim Wooden Tablet by showing that five answers were returned to when multiplied by the divisors 3, 7, 10, 11 and 13. The RMP also divided a hekat unity by prime and composite numbers n when 1/64 < n < 64. The binary quotient used Eye of Horus numbers. The remainder scaled Egyptian fractions to 1/320 units named ro. Quotients and unscaled remainders were obtained for the dja, ro and other units when the divisor n was greater than 64. For example, one the 1/320 ro unit was written by Ahmes by solving 320/n ro. Gillings cites 29 examples of two-part statements converted to one-part statements in RMP 82. Ahmes recorded the n = 3 case by showing /3 = 21/64 + 1/192 as written as/64 + 5/3 × 1/320 = 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1 2/3ro. Two-part statements were also converted by Ahmes to an unscaled hin unit by writing 3 1/3 hin.²²³³
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hekat in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hekat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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