Guys, think outside of the box. They had rubber yardsticks in those days.
Stretch it to measure bowl diameter, and relax it to measure circumference..
Besides which Microsoft Excel will round pi down to 3 when number of digits of
the decimal point are set to zero.

Mike Eberlein

Mark Rand wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:56:31 GMT, Santa Cruz Mike
wrote:

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Ed.. the nonsense isn't in this description from a Jewish History.
Book... the nonsense is that some (Cliff for one) have said that this
verse and a chapter in another book with a few more details.. state
the PI equals 3.00 because a round bowl, etc cannot be made with an
outside diameter of 10 units and have an outside circumference of 30
units... Well.. I have a bowl that has an OD of 10 inches and an
outside circumference of 30 inches.... And I was hoping Cliff would
enlighten us as to how this is possible.. or just state that it is not
possible.. I mean he does have a degree in physics, etc..and
shouldn't this be child's play to him?




Just out of curiosity, You have given the major diameter of the ellipse. What
is the minor diameter?

Mark Rand
RTFM