The thing people miss is how 432 isn't just a number—it's a *scale*. Think of it like a tuning fork. If you have a musical scale, you don't just pick random notes; you use ratios. Same with ancient systems. They weren't just throwing numbers around—they were building a system where 432 acted as a reference point, like a base frequency. If you look at how different cultures used it, it's not about the number itself, but how it *relates* to other measurements. That's the real pattern. Not just "432 shows up," but "432 shows up in ways that suggest it was used as a standard." That’s not coincidence. That’s a system.