Re: FWD: Pi redefined (fwd)

[Doug Craigen <dcc@cyberspc.mb.ca>]

DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA wrote:
> At 10:08 PM 4/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > >  "I think that it is the mathematicians that are being irrational, and
> > >  it is time for them to admit it," said Lawson.  "The Bible very
> > >  clearly says in I Kings 7:23 that the altar font of Solomon's Temple
> > >  was ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter, and that it
> > >  was round in compass."
>
> "Ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter" ? What did the
>                                         ^^^^^^^^
> Bible exactly say.


Since I don't have a Hebrew Bible handy, you'll have to settle for a 
translation (NIV).  This is probably more meaningful to you anyways.

I Kings 7:23
  He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from 
  rim to rim and five cubits high.  It took a line of thirty cubits to 
  measure round it. 

Ok, it doesn't say "diameter" anywhere.  Neither does it say "circumference" 
anywhere, nor "exactly 10 cubits", nor "exactly thirty cubits", nor 
"perfectly circular".

.... this was a rather cute spoof on the news, politicians, and Biblical 
literalists - but there wasn't a lot of original material in it.

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