On Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:16:41 AM UTC+13, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2011-03-18, peter 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’m not sure how you can write “30” with one digit... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
