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Post by unkleE on Dec 1, 2008 20:35:01 GMT
I enjoyed this post. I remember seeing on an atheist forum the argument that God's existence should be doubted, and certainly the accuracy of the Bible doubted, because it says that the circumference of a circle is 3 times the diameter. One was left wondering how many decimal places of pi God should have revealed to have satisfied this criterion! And of course, if he had chosen to give pi to 1000 decimal places, how much fun the ancient Jewish copyists would have had checking it each time! : )
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Post by humphreyclarke on Dec 2, 2008 10:24:51 GMT
Thanks. The thing I liked about it was that Singh attempted to do a tongue in cheek put-down of 'nine million bicycles' but ended up getting his cosmology wrong. Shows that the best of us make blunders when we get carried away. Babbage, I suspect, was only half joking.
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Post by bjorn on Dec 3, 2008 11:19:31 GMT
Using zero decimals 3 is an absolutely correct version of pi.
One wonders also why every obviously "none revealed" sentence in the Bible should be evaluated as being directly from God and not from the local architect or fisherman.
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