On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:54:57AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/09/07 08:11, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:23:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/09/07 05:10, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:08:42PM +1000, SB wrote: > >>>> Ron Johnson wrote: > >> [snip] > >>>>> You haven't read the Bible lately, have you? > >>>> Does it get updated on a regular basis ? > >>>> > >>> It is feature complete and bug-free. No need for updates. > >> Except for that part where a circle is defined to be 3x the diameter... > >> > > I don't remember seeing that. Cite? > > > $ bible > bible: Debian/BRS Release 4.18, $Date: 2005/01/23 11:29:22 $ > Hit '?' for help. > > Genesis 1 > > 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. > bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> 1king7:23 > > 1 Kings 7 > > 23 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. >
Well, since we are getting all scientific, the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference is in fact 3, if all you have is one significant digit, which it appears is all we have from the text. Now, if it said "ten point zero zero cubits" and "five point zero zero cubits" and "thirty point zero zero cubits" then there might be a point in there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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