π Is Exactly Three!

by William Jackson on 2007-01-20

Iʼm sorry it had to come to that, but now that I have your attention, I think only a geek of biblical proportions would find this as interesting as I do.

I discovered today that I have a book in my apartment that contains one of the earliest known approximations of π, the ratio of a circleʼs circumference to its diameter.

Just open up your nearest Old Testament to 1 Kings 7:23 and tell me what you see.