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Well, at least this is a lot smarter than the "pi is exactly 3!" movement.

• limist 16y ago
  Or the 22/7 people...
  • martinkallstrom 16y ago
    I'm born on July 22th (22/7). Still like tau better than pi.
• boredguy8 16y ago
  http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp
• pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  There are two standard rebuttals. One is that the thickness of the vessels wall (hands-breadth) is not taken into account in the establishment of 3 as the value being used for pi despite this being mentioned right there in the text, this apparently gives a value of 3.1414 for pi. The other is that 1 Kings 7:23 reference uses a special rendering of the term line (Hebrew numbers are expressed using letters) such that the ratio of line to ordinary line and the rendering in the text give the actual value as: 3 * 111/106 This gives Pi accurate to 0.00026%. This all seems quite ex-post-facto but Hebrew has a strong tradition of numerology and this "special" variant of the word line is used only 3 times and always referring to circular objects. --- Example references: (short) http://msmvps.com/blogs/coad/archive/2010/05/14/pi-in-the-bible.aspx http://msmvps.com/blogs/coad/archive/2010/05/14/pi-in-the-bi..., (longer) http://www.bibleprobe.com/pi.htm http://www.bibleprobe.com/pi.htm, (several refs) http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/bpi/bpi.html http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/bpi/bpi.html, (with alternate based on "hands-breadth") http://ldolphin.org/pi/index.html http://ldolphin.org/pi/index.html though I'm not sure on the original source.