Pi equals 3??????????????

Here's something about it. http://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm

Pi is not 3. It's not 3.14. It is not 3.14159. It does not matter how accurate the Bible is, people would have complained. Anyway, in 1 Kings, a guy measured a basin's diameter and circumference to the nearest cubit, which is really close enough for describing a big basin, and people say that the Bible is incorrect.

If they want to disbelieve God, because of that, I don't think there's much hope for them other than to pray.

The term "pi" is not used, but the Bible incorrectly guesses at the mathematical formula to determine the circumference of a circle.

1 Kings 7:23

23 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference."

Back in the days of slide rules many engineers would use 3 for Pi.

Let's hope Kai in no way will get a job involving public safeguard or bridge building or anything of that nature...:) I vote no, let's leave it because the countless irrational number that it is. In any case, it can be some of the very, very few irrational things i can factor to in this world as "actual!" Peace.

In some book (I'm too lazy to look it up) it gives the diameter of a certain bowl as 10 cubits and a circumference of 30 cubits

The last time I looked pi was 3.14159 etc. And the number continues into infinity.

3.14159..... does not equal 3.

No, it equals 3. 1415926535897 9323846264338 3279502884197 1693993751058 2097494459230 7816406286208 9986280348253 4211706798214 8086513282306 6470938446095 5058223172535 9408128481117 4502841027019 3852110555964 4622948954930 3819644288109 7566593344612 8475648233786 7831652712019 0914564856692 3460348610454 3266482133936 0726024914127 3724587006606 3155881748815 2092096282925 4091715364367 8925903600113 3053054882046 6521384146951 9415116094330 5727036575959 1953092186117 3819326117931 0511854807446 2379962749567 3518857527248 9122793818301 1949129833673 3624406566430 8602139494639 5224737190702 1798609437027 7053921717629 3176752384674 8184676694051 3200056812714 5263560827785 7713427577896 0917363717872 1468440901224 9534301465495 8537105079227 9689258923542 0199561121290 2196086403441 8159813629774 7713099605187 0721134.

Well, not that, it's endless.

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How's your math ???

Do you know how to "round down' a number ???

Pi = 3.14159, and if rounded to 4 decimal places becomes 3,1416, right?

Now round it down to ZERO decimal places - did you get 3 ???

It is obvious to me that the Bible knows more about math than most here.

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Hey, if the Earth can be flat, Pi can be equal to three.

Oh? That's what you call a person who is trying to act smart and religious at the same time.