Pi trivia

[javasaurus]

According to the Bible pi is exactly 3.

From the New King James, 1 Kings 7:23

And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Did you know that in Indiana in 1897 they tried to legally define "pi"? It passed the house but was killed in the senate. Lots of reasons why it was tried but the main thing apparently was that of trying to carve up their land use appropriately when even 22/7 division was "difficult" (says something about public schools for farmers back then) and so was to provide not a legal definition for biblical reasons but a convenience that couldn't be legally challenged for land allocation on circular plots.

The email about Alabama (or Kansas or Oklahoma or even Indiana) trying to legislate it to the biblical 3 was actually a hoax, another case of (Nathan) Poe's Law: you can not parody a religious right talking point without someone thinking its a serious effort.

Meanwhile, the Brits can celebrate pi day twice: april 31st (31/4) and july 22nd ("22/7")!