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If not taken as a science/book that describes reality there is no problem. When you argue like AV that everything it says in Bible is litteraly true with no room for interpretation then it becomes a problem that pi = 3.
Indeed. The Bible could have had "perfect" communication on this score by simply eliminating one of the dimensions. E.g., it was 10 cubits across OR it was 30 cubits around. Thus, no pi could be inferred. Too, it could have said it was 10 cubits across and a cord of 30 cubits could NOT compass it about.
It is "literaly" and (more importantly, mathematically) true that, to one significant figure, pi=3. The underpinning of AVs argument - the Bible (specifically the KJV) must be taken literally - is flawed. However, in this case he has stumbled into finding a valid justification for declaring that pi=3. Yes, that's an approximation. Somewhere, lying in a stack of papers in my study I have a print out of pi to 10,000 decimal places. And that's an approximation too.
I don't even read his posts, but the "pi=3" argument is a bad one. The text only gives one digit of precision (ten, thirty), to which pi is 3. It makes no claim that there is more precision.
