On Jun 17, 2016 5:44 PM, "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" <lawrenced...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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...
If I tell you that the speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s, do you think that measurement has 9 significant digits? If you do, then you would be wrong. By the way, you're also replying to posts that are more than 5 years old. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
