Re: The value of pi in the Bible
- From: "Nick" <tulse04-news1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 01:39:26 -0000
"Colin" <colinpoakes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've often come across the claim in various texts on the history of
mathematics that somewhere in the Bible the value of pi is given as 3.
However, none of these texts ever identify where in the Bible this
value is given. Does anyone know?
See
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
"A little known verse of the Bible reads
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 about. (I Kings 7, 23)
The same verse can be found in II Chronicles 4, 2. It occurs in a list of
specifications for the great temple of Solomon, built around 950 BC and its
interest here is that it gives pi = 3."
Nick
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