From: robert bristow-johnson on
On Feb 10, 8:39 am, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
>
> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. Various legislators
> at various times introduced ordinances to set the value of pi at some
> convenient rational fraction. No ordinance can affect the value of a
> physical constant.

Jerry, pi is a mathematical constant. i wouldn't call it a physical
constant, in the sense of the fine-structure constant or the proton-
electron mass ratio or any of the other 26 or so dimensionless
fundamental physical constants.

> Pi remains [approx] 3.1415926535897932384626433832795...
> despite their efforts.

i dunno. them Republicans are challenging a lot of reality. maybe
someday they'll win.

r b-j

From: Randy Yates on
Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
> [...]
> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three.

Where is that?
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From: Jerry Avins on
robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> On Feb 10, 8:39 am, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
>> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. Various legislators
>> at various times introduced ordinances to set the value of pi at some
>> convenient rational fraction. No ordinance can affect the value of a
>> physical constant.
>
> Jerry, pi is a mathematical constant.

Right. My bad.

> i wouldn't call it a physical
> constant, in the sense of the fine-structure constant or the proton-
> electron mass ratio or any of the other 26 or so dimensionless
> fundamental physical constants.
>
>> Pi remains [approx] 3.1415926535897932384626433832795...
>> despite their efforts.
>
> i dunno. them Republicans are challenging a lot of reality. maybe
> someday they'll win.


Bob, you're real good at making up horror stories.

Jerry
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From: Jerry Avins on
Randy Yates wrote:
> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
>> [...]
>> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three.
>
> Where is that?

In the old testament, a the descriptions of a vessel in the Temple.

look look look ...

1 Kings 4:23. "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
the other: it was round all about, and its height was five cubits: and a
line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."

Jerry
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From: Tim Wescott on
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:32 -0500, Jerry Avins wrote:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
>>> [...]
>>> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three.
>>
>> Where is that?
>
> In the old testament, a the descriptions of a vessel in the Temple.
>
> look look look ...
>
> 1 Kings 4:23. "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
> the other: it was round all about, and its height was five cubits: and a
> line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
>
> Jerry

Clearly written by a fuzzy studies major.

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