Comments on: A Piece of the Torah’s Pi https://www.notajungle.com/2017/01/20/a-piece-of-the-torahs-pi/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Someone https://www.notajungle.com/2017/01/20/a-piece-of-the-torahs-pi/#comment-91 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:03:56 +0000 http://notajungle.com/?p=1080#comment-91 Myeh. What about the 5th, 6th and 17th decimal place? Why only 4? Why decimal places – the system used in the Torah for describing fractions of a whole is fractions of real positive integer numbers (e.g. “vchamishiso yosef olov”)- not necessarily fractions of 10.

My own suggestion is that (a) of course Tanach was written before the discovery of irrational numbers, and that (b) the sea of Shlomo, like any real object, was not a perfect circle – it had width for starters, which gives you a choice of different places to measure from. In fact (though I don’t believe this to be true) you could derive a width of something like (10 Amos – 30 Amos / Pi) / 2 which is approximately 0.22 Amos.

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