On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:16 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-03-18, peter <peter.mos...@talk21.com> wrote: > > The Old Testament (1 Kings 7,23) says ... "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. ". So pi=3. End Of. > There's nothing wrong with that value. The measurements were given > with one significant digit, so the ratio of the two measurements > should only have one significant digit.
I've worked in landscaping and [low-scale] agriculture - pi as 3 is used all the time. It is easy to compute in your head and close enough. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
