7 Mar
2021
7 Mar
'21
6:25 a.m.
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, Bakul Shah wrote:
On Mar 6, 2021, at 1:22 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I believe it was - I've heard of it before. And I run in the kind of
circles that would be likely to say "π=3.0 because JEBUS!" or
"geocentricity because JEBUS!" :/ (In fact, it took a second to realize I
was reading a TUHS post.)
I worry for humanity.
-uso.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Andy Kosela wrote:
From the Kings James Bible
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1392613
1 Kings 7:23
[...] and that is akin to trying to define the
value of PI to be 3."
Urban myth. And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one
brim to the other: it
was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about.
There seem to be various explanations for the above but perhaps it is
the genesis of the common “define the value of pi to be 3” idea?