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    37818 Well-Known Member

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    It is commonly given as 3.0.
    Actually calculates to 3.10.
    There are two Bible references for this. But the one I remember is using 22/7ths. 1 Kings 7:23. (23 minus the 1 of 1 Kings is 22 is how I remember the reference.)

    1 Kings 7:23-26.
    ". . . 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 round about. And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast. It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. And 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. . . ."

    So 30 being understood to be the inside cIrcumference. So the inside diameter being understood to be 10 minus 2 hand breadths. About 2/6ths of a cubit. Calcs out to about 3.10 for PI (3.14159265358979 . . .)
     
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    Math is constant, no matter what language is used.

    It is remarkable how accurate the measurement in ancient times were,, given no computers or calculators.

    peace to you
     
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    Lol, there was nothing stupid about those people.
     
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    Agreed.

    peace to you
     
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    Relevant? Yes. Confirms OP? No.
    ...
    When the value of pi appeared to be surely a bit more than 3, panic ripped through the realm. A wide variety of excuses have been devised to rescue the infallibility of the Book of First Kings, and explain this erroneous value of pi in the Bible.

    We've hand-picked some of the lamest, and made up a few more...:
    …
    So yes, the pi-value of 3 is incorporated in the Bible, and that is incorrect. In 2002 pi was calculated up to 1.241 trillion decimal places, which, if it had been in the Bible, would have made the Bible a whole lot thicker, but also a little bit better. But what if the best isn't good enough? Maybe we're missing a point...​
     
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    Ok this for you:

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    πis found several times in the bible first of which is in Genesis 1:1. The 1 Chronicles argument always forgets the tick mark that mathematically makes the ratio accurate to within 1/10000 of an inch.
     
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    Well if one understands the 30 cubit circumference is an inside measurement and the 10 cubit diameter is an out side measurment. I cannot fix the common misreading. The true value of PI defines this.
     
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    It is true, 30 divided by 10 is 3. But the inside circumference divided by its outside diameter would not be PI.
     
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    Ok, they still did amazing calculations in a very primitive time.

    peace to you
     
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    My post was a quote aimed at correcting what should have been an obvious misunderstanding of that article.
     
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    What missunderstanding specifically?
     
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    OK, in keeping with what you, and evidently the OP, consider the natural direction of this thread, how about another "round"? Or three? Or should that be of 3? Or of pi? Or of pie? :Wink





     
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    Why? The outer diameter needs to be minus the 2 hand breadths in order to be the diameter of the inner circumference.

    Edit. After a closer look at the link, the answer I gave was not in the link. Or we both missed it.
     
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    The link lists the explanation as among “the lamest.” It is not at all in support of the OP. It does not confirm it but rather denies it.

    This has nothing to do with whether either assessment is correct, only that the two assessments don’t agree--at all. This should be obvious.
     
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    Wait a second. I thought 3 hands-breaths, divided by a giants toe, square rooted and added to the diameter equaled the sum of the hypotenuse twice removed.

    What did I miss?

    peace to you
     
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