Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> I feel a new phrase coming on: “good enough for Bible work”! > > I understand there's a passage in the Bible somewhere that > uses a 1 significant digit approximation to pi...
Yes: 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] This and other entertaining stories in: <URL: https://www.amazon.com/History-PI-Beckmann/dp/B004XYXQ96> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list