Math errors in python

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 20 02:38:40 EDT 2004


Andrea:
> This is from the Bible...
> 
> 007:023 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 it's clear that pi must be 3

Or that the walls were 0.25 cubits thick, if you're talking
inner diameter vs. outer.  ;)

				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com



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