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From: Randy Yates on 12 Feb 2010 19:46
Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:

> 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."

And if it had been written "...and a line of thirty one and 41
hundredths cubits did compass it round about." you'd also think
it was in error?
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From: Jerry Avins on 12 Feb 2010 22:02
Randy Yates wrote:
> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
>
>> 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."
>
> And if it had been written "...and a line of thirty one and 41
> hundredths cubits did compass it round about." you'd also think
> it was in error?

I wouldn't have thought about it either way. What brought it to my
attention was a sermon pointing out that science and mathematics are not
to be trusted, citing among other "evidence", scientists' common error
about the ratio of circumference to diameter.

I'm prepared to accept 3 as a loose approximation. The Minister would
accept it only as the Word of God, therefore exact.

Jerry
--
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From: Les Cargill on 12 Feb 2010 22:12
Jerry Avins wrote:
> Randy Yates wrote:
>> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
>>
>>> 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."
>>
>> And if it had been written "...and a line of thirty one and 41
>> hundredths cubits did compass it round about." you'd also think
>> it was in error?
>
> I wouldn't have thought about it either way. What brought it to my
> attention was a sermon pointing out that science and mathematics are not
> to be trusted, citing among other "evidence", scientists' common error
> about the ratio of circumference to diameter.
>
> I'm prepared to accept 3 as a loose approximation. The Minister would
> accept it only as the Word of God, therefore exact.
>
> Jerry

I expect the minister had a traumatic experience in a math class.
Some recover from them more readily than others.

--
Les Cargill
From: Randy Yates on 12 Feb 2010 22:22
Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes:
>>
>>> 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."
>>
>> And if it had been written "...and a line of thirty one and 41
>> hundredths cubits did compass it round about." you'd also think
>> it was in error?
>
> I wouldn't have thought about it either way. What brought it to my
> attention was a sermon pointing out that science and mathematics are
> not to be trusted, citing among other "evidence", scientists' common
> error about the ratio of circumference to diameter.
>
> I'm prepared to accept 3 as a loose approximation. The Minister would
> accept it only as the Word of God, therefore exact.

I now see the light! :)
--
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Digital Signal Labs % She love the way Puccini lays down a tune, and
mailto://yates(a)ieee.org % Verdi's always creepin' from her room."
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