-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/07 10:47, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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.
Shame on you, Roberto. You're too smart to succumb to that sort of reasoning in any context other than Biblical Inerrancy. BTW, the ancient Greeks used the ratio 22/7. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQkP9S9HxQb37XmcRAtjFAJ0YgHk0NCceIAtIb2o44dx0QmguWwCfQKEy fMfa/P6VIPADgTM4SfP5cRY= =3JLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
