In several different passages of the bible, seemingly round objects are described with a single diameter of 10 units and a perimeter of 30 units. These quoted dimensions may strike the mathematically inclined reader as odd, since it has been known for millenia that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is the irrational number Pi, which is approximately 3.1415926535.Here's a sequence with a million digits.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Why the bible is wrong about Pi
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bible,
christianity,
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