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I just read through yet another tortured thread where athiests and others claim that the bible mistakenly says pi=3.
NathanGreen had it right. There is nothing in the account that can be used to determine pi one way or the other.
I wanted to start a new thread in order to present the actual facts that refute their claim, and do so in the OP. Here again is the scripture in question:
1 Kings 7:
23And 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.
26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Notice that the 'brim' was formed like the brim of a cup, bent or curved outward from the main cylinderical body. The brim measurement of 10 cubits would then necessarily be slightly greater than a perfect 'pi' calculation.
In fact if you did apply pi to the circumference measurement you would have the actual diameter of 9.55 cubits. This reveals that the brim stuck outwards .45 cubits or about 4 inches all around. It was the outward shaped brim that measured ten cubits across, not the diameter of the main body of the laver.
Most high school students with average reading comprehension, and who have passed high school geometry could probbly figger this one out.
Soooooooo, why can't you guys?
owg (B's in English, A's in Geometry.)
NathanGreen had it right. There is nothing in the account that can be used to determine pi one way or the other.
I wanted to start a new thread in order to present the actual facts that refute their claim, and do so in the OP. Here again is the scripture in question:
1 Kings 7:
23And 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.
26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Notice that the 'brim' was formed like the brim of a cup, bent or curved outward from the main cylinderical body. The brim measurement of 10 cubits would then necessarily be slightly greater than a perfect 'pi' calculation.
In fact if you did apply pi to the circumference measurement you would have the actual diameter of 9.55 cubits. This reveals that the brim stuck outwards .45 cubits or about 4 inches all around. It was the outward shaped brim that measured ten cubits across, not the diameter of the main body of the laver.
Most high school students with average reading comprehension, and who have passed high school geometry could probbly figger this one out.
Soooooooo, why can't you guys?
owg (B's in English, A's in Geometry.)
