value of pi and 22/7

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jun 21 08:52:40 EDT 2016


Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>    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. [1 Kings 7:23]

I think I know how that came about. It was actually filled
with molten neutronium, and the gravitational field was
distorting space enough to give a local circumference/diameter
ratio of 3.

-- 
Greg



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