Re: pi=3?

Garry DeWeese (deweese@ucsu.Colorado.EDU)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:32:45 -0700 (MST)

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I don't know about the legislature, but the biblical reference is 2 Chr
4:1-2, which says the "Bronze Sea" or laver in the courtyard of Solomon's
Temple was 10 cubits "rim to rim" and 30 cubits in circumference. The
ratio thus would be 3. The discrepancy from pi is generally explained by
noting the rim to rim diameter was an internal measurement, while the
circumference was external (so one could calculate the thickness of the
laver). Or it might simply be round-off error.

Garry DeWeese
Dayspring Center for Christian Studies
Boulder, CO

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