Re: Pi day

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From: John Ross
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00

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Mike Hall wrote <thehalls-2603971444330001@news.elite.net>:

> <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> > Quite true.  Making sausage rolls the pastry needs to be three widths
> > of sausage and a bit.  The hardest thing to teach is when an
> > approximation is appropriate.
> 
> Don't I recall that the Temple of Solomon had a golden "bath" which was 10
> cubits in diameter, and a circle of 30 cubits "encompassed it round
> about"???  It comes as a shock to many to find that the Bible says pi is
> equal to 3 ...

Perhaps He created the universe more curved than we know it.  Now He's
loosening or losing his grip.  Either way space is becoming less
curved.  Discuss. :-)

-- 
John Ross
Southampton

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From: john@jross.demon.co.uk (John Ross)
Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/27
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