From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 09:16:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D971D52-6751-41A1-90FE-44EB8FF0C4BE@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C82B92AB-9EEE-4ED7-89C1-9CEC66D40E3D@iitbombay.org>
I'm pretty sure people knew the value of PI before 1611, when the
Authorized Version was published, and that people had a pretty good
idea when the event described in 1 Kings 7 happened, a bit
before 900 BC. They used 3.1605 for the ratio in that time, I believe.
The values in the Bible are as one would explain to someone in conversation
about something else. If I said something was 10 feet across and 30 feet around
in normal conversation, an error of a foot and a half would be close
enough. When buying material, I use 4 as PI and trim to fit.
Brantley.
> On Mar 6, 2021, at 6:58 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 6, 2021, at 1:22 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Andy Kosela wrote:
>>
>>> [...] and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3."
>>
>> Urban myth.
>
> From the Kings James Bible
> https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1392613
> 1 Kings 7:23
>> And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
>
> There seem to be various explanations for the above but perhaps it is the genesis of the common “define the value of pi to be 3” idea?
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2021-03-04 16:52 Will Senn
2021-03-04 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-04 18:31 ` arnold
2021-03-04 19:23 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-04 19:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-04 21:20 ` Robert Clausecker
2021-03-04 21:25 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 9:58 ` John Gilmore
2021-03-06 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-15 3:02 ` John Cowan
2021-03-15 18:15 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-15 21:19 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-15 23:47 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-16 3:10 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-15 21:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 21:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-15 21:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 22:06 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-16 13:25 ` arnold
2021-03-17 5:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 21:40 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 18:48 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-03-05 0:44 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:09 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-05 1:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:29 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-04 18:33 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 21:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:27 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:29 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:42 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:48 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 22:08 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-04 22:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-05 14:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 20:24 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 21:51 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 23:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 0:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 23:58 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-07 0:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-07 0:25 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-07 9:16 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2021-03-05 9:50 ` [TUHS] tunefs -m 5% John Gilmore
2021-03-05 15:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-05 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-06 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 1:52 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-06 21:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 22:03 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 4:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 23:52 ` David Barto
2021-03-06 1:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 22:10 ` [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Greg A. Woods
2021-03-05 1:41 ` alan
2021-03-05 1:55 ` alan
2021-03-05 2:06 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 17:08 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 17:19 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-05 19:39 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-03-05 19:51 ` Dan Halbert
2021-03-08 1:52 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 16:43 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2021-03-05 22:23 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 20:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 16:44 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-05 19:29 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-03-06 23:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 22:50 Norman Wilson
2021-03-07 2:53 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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