In about what time period did people learn to measure length to an accuracy of 3% or so?
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http://www.fig.net/news/news_2004/athens/ancient_exhibit.htm
Evidently precision measuring devices have been around for quite some time.
Evidently precision measuring devices have been around for quite some time.
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Thanks for the reference. I was thinking of feet and inches. If accuracy was less than 3% then it would never had occurred to the ancients that ratio of circ. of a circle to the diameter was less than 3.
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This is a concept called significant figures. One of the things I dislike about biblical criticism is the complaing about pi = 3. To one significant figure it most assuredly does.
Significance is a very important topic.
However, the key is that if the molten sea mentioned in the bible was 10cubits, approximately 14 feet(?) that would be the difference of nearly 2 feet or so in the circumfrence of the final sea. If it is 10cubits across it should be 31.4 cubits around. (assuming that 1 cubit is about 1.4 feet).
It is reasonable to assume that the ancients would have been able to discern this distance. I should think.
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