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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2014, 09:39:00 PM »
... it doesn't matter how many decimal places you approximate Pi to, it's still 3 and a bit.

Don't be so sure.  If you believe the bible, pi is three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

Remember, pi*10 = 31 and change.  So the Jews must have had extraordinarily bad tape measures.
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« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2014, 09:50:54 PM »
Then there is the Indiana Pi BIll:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2014, 05:27:40 AM »
Marv.......one would not need to be of an Einstein IQ :old: to understand what I was attempting to convey.......

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2014, 03:32:39 PM »
Then there is the Indiana Pi BIll:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

"...one of the most famous attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat..."

--Tim
Or an unsuccessful attempt by a snake oil salesman to con an entire legislature into setting up a case where each time the so called "circle squaring" method was presented said snake oil salesman would receive a royalty payment from the state.
The author was supposed to be a physician but I sure wouldn't want to have him treat me. The "Indiana Pi Bill" article really reads like a con that almost happened.

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2014, 08:50:15 PM »
... it doesn't matter how many decimal places you approximate Pi to, it's still 3 and a bit.

Don't be so sure.  If you believe the bible, pi is three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

Remember, pi*10 = 31 and change.  So the Jews must have had extraordinarily bad tape measures.
They must have cut a bit off the end to make it kosher.

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2014, 02:32:22 AM »

Don't be so sure.  If you believe the bible, pi is three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

Remember, pi*10 = 31 and change.  So the Jews must have had extraordinarily bad tape measures.

Is that why they use cubits?

cu = 3 and bit = ..............a bit more.  :toilet_claw:

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2014, 03:48:37 PM »
You can always get a rough estimate by finding a ship with a large crew and looking at the proportion who are dressed differently, because one in 3.142 of them will be Pi-rates...

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Re: equal quadrants..
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2014, 11:08:08 PM »
damn,

 :facepalm: LMAO .....  I just knew that I would end up using the wrong terminology :-( 

Actually 'tvought' puts it more succinctly than I did.

Cheers........
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