The heights that remain
The Great Pyramid on this board is 138.8 metres tall as it stands today, without the lost smooth cap. The Washington Monument is 169 metres, the obelisk, base to tip, also tall. Both are stones a postcard likes to crop. The pyramid number is the body that remains. The monument number is the full obelisk, base included and tip included. Neither figure is a drawing of a site as it once was. Start with what remains, or the ratios below will be glued to a building the fact refused. Tall is the axis for both, so this pair really is a height.
169 divided by 138.8 is about 1.22. The monument is taller. The margin is real and it is not dramatic. People who have one photograph of each often call them the same kind of big. Same would be a ratio near one. About 1.22 is a step up, the kind of step a careful eye can miss and a boast will exaggerate. Keep the step at 1.22. Do not promote it into a different species of building, and do not sand it flat into a tie. The two stones can share a picture. They do not share a height.
What 1.22 does to the score
A miss of 1.2 scores 78. The monument-to-pyramid ratio is about 1.22, so treating the two stones as equal sits near that small miss, not in a disaster. Within 6 percent scores 100, and 1.22 is outside that comfort, so twins do not earn a perfect call. Four thirds scores 62, and about 1.22 has not reached four thirds. Name 1.22. It is more than a tie and less than a third extra. The red outline after lock-in will show a modest stick-out if you tied them, and a large leftover of white if you doubled them. Modest is the true gap.
The boast runs the other way. Calling the monument twice the pyramid sets a ratio near two against a truth of about 1.22. A ratio of two scores 45 when you are actually off by two. A doubled pyramid is a larger story than 1.22 supports. Say taller, not double. If you doubled, the red stone sits well inside the white one. If you tied them, the red stone sticks out by that modest factor, near the points a 1.2 miss scores. Look before you argue with the postcard. The postcard filled the frame. The frame was not a tape.
Cap out, antennas in, pedestal in
Versions are the content of this comparison, not a footnote. The lost smooth cap is not in the pyramid number. Adding a point the present building does not have grades a restoration this figure refused. No height for the missing cap is given here, and none should be guessed into the 138.8 metres. The figure is the pyramid as it stands today. Stop at today. The Washington Monument figure does include the tip, because base to tip is the whole obelisk, and the fact is not hiding a lost piece. Read the inclusion before you add stone.
The Eiffel Tower is about 330 metres to the antennas, so the antennas are in the number. A deck you can stand on is a shorter memory, and it is the wrong memory. The Statue of Liberty is about 93 metres, ground to torch, and the pedestal is in that number. The robes alone are not the figure being graded. Three inclusions, and they do not match each other: cap out, antennas in, pedestal in. Mix them and the ratios become arguments about versions. Settle the version, then use only the arithmetic the facts already allow.
One and a half statues
138.8 divided by 93 is about 1.5. The pyramid, cap already excluded, is about one and a half Liberties with the pedestal included. One and a half is not two. A ratio of two scores 45, so a guess that the pyramid is twice the statue is a coarser claim than 1.5. A tie is also the wrong sentence, because 1.5 is a real gap, not a 6 percent quarrel. Say one and a half statues. Include the pedestal in the statue you are counting. Leave the cap out of the pyramid you are counting. The sentence is only true if both versions stay where the facts put them.
Liberty is a fine unit for a tower and a joke for a world, and the pyramid is still on the tower side of that line. About 1.5 statues is a picture a person can hold. You do not need a planet here, and you should not reach for one. Players who lock in low often remember the robes and forget the stone base. The red outline gives the base back as height. That miss is a dropped version, not a misreading of the pyramid. Put the pedestal back into the unit and 1.5 becomes an ordinary sentence. Leave it out and every later ratio shifts.
Almost two monuments
330 divided by 169 is about 1.95. The Eiffel Tower, antennas included, is almost two Washington Monuments, base to tip. Almost two is not two, and it is nothing like the 1.22 between monument and pyramid. A ratio of two scores 45. A guess that the tower and the monument are the same height is off by about 1.95, the neighborhood of that double, not the neighborhood of a 1.2 miss. Players who bundle famous towers into one height are answering fame. Fame filled both frames. The metres did not. Say almost two, and keep the antennas in the tower you mean.
Keep the ladder in the order the ratios allow. Liberty, pedestal in, about 93 metres. Pyramid, cap out, 138.8 metres, about 1.5 of those statues. Monument, base to tip, 169 metres, about 1.22 pyramids. Eiffel, antennas in, about 330 metres, about 1.95 monuments. Each step uses a ratio already stated. Do not chain the steps into a new official multiple. Say the step you are actually judging. Monument against tower is about 1.95, antennas in. Pyramid against monument is about 1.22, cap out. Pyramid against Liberty is about 1.5, pedestal in. Three sentences. Do not weld them.
Lock the version first
Before the slider moves, say which parts are in. Cap out. Antennas in. Pedestal in. Tip in, for the obelisk, because base to tip is the whole stone. Then say the ratio that belongs to that pair, and only that pair. The slider still runs from the reference times 0.012 to times 120, wider than the answer on purpose, so a tower is not hiding at the end of the track. These ratios, about 1.22 and about 1.5 and about 1.95, sit in an ordinary part of the track. Zoom until both stones share the ground line. A cropped postcard is a zoom you did from memory. Undo it.
Unlimited can host the same pair again without the daily weights and without a streak. The daily weights remain one, one, two, three, and three, and a perfect five is still 1,000, so a version error on a late round is the expensive one. Today's answers stay closed until you finish or you choose to look. Compare has no score and will hold two versions side by side if you want to see about 1.95 as a picture first. Then lock in. The red outline is the truth, including the inclusion you meant to skip. Skip it in words and the outline draws it anyway.