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The Bible uses PI = 3 and that's good enough for me > And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his heig
by jmfayard 4y ago
The Bible uses PI = 3 and that's good enough for me
> And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
1 Kings 7:23 King James
- jonatron 4y agoShould've been at 7:22 King James
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoyou mean 7:21 given the circumstances
- Timwi 4y agoLet's call it an even 7:20
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- midasuni 4y agoIt was round, was it a perfect circle? How many significant figures was it to? How accurate was construction and measuring techniques? 9.7 diameter would be reasonable as “10”, as would 30.47 being “30”, with values being well within 5%.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- quickthrower2 4y agoUnless nautical cubits are different from land based cubits
- frumiousirc 4y agoThey are wetter.
- doliveira 4y agoFunny how that's how described in the Pentateuch's tabernacle: God sends detailed instructions about how many buttons (?) the priest's clothing should have but when it comes to PI "yeah, 3 is good enough"
- llimos 4y agoActually... In the original Hebrew version of I Kings, in that verse the word for 'circumference' is traditionally written differently to how it is read (there are instances of this kind of thing all over the Bible [1]) Each letter in Hebrew has a numeric value [2]. As written: קוה = 111 As read: קו = 106 Ratio between them: 111/106 = 1.04717... Which is exactly the ratio between the reported value of pi (3) and the real value to 4 decimal places (3.1415) So maybe they did have a better idea than "3". The 3 in the verse is to keep it simple, but there's a clue there for those who want the real number. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qere_and_Ketiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qere_and_Ketiv [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria