81. Scientific American: Ask The Experts: Mathematics: What Is Pi, And How Did It Or circle. Regardless of the circle's size, this ratio will always equalpi. In decimal form, the value of pi is approximately 3.14. But http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0006E2E9-B355-1C71-9EB7809

82. Ohr.edu - Ask The Rabbi - 287 This has nothing to do with knowing the value of pi. It's a simplequestion of circling the pool with a tape measure. Could it http://www.ohr.edu/ask/ask287.htm

September 23, 2000 / 23 Elul 5760; Issue #287 Contents: Circular Reasoning Good News for Jews? Yiddle Riddle Public Domain ... Subscription Information Back issues are indexed both by issue no. and by subject Ohr Somayach Home Page This publication is also available in the following formats: Explanation of these symbols Circular Reasoning Contents M. Stolzenbach from Brentwood, TN wrote: Dear Rabbi, A friend asked me about the description of the circular brass pool in the Temple. (I Kings, 7:23) Skeptics say that if this pool was 10 across and 30 around, then G-d doesn't seem to know the value of "pi." Either that, or the pool was not exactly circular. One friend retorted (this was in e-mail) that approximate measurements are enough for some purposes. But my friend said that G-d certainly ought to know the exact facts, and this proved that the Bible was written by men, not by G-d. Can you help him, and me? (By the way, he liked your explanation concerning the evidence for the Exodus.) Thanks. Dear M. Stolzenbach, First let's define our terms: Pie is the relationship of one's belly button to one's belt buckle.

83. [ 3.14ever - - Odyssey Charter School - - ThinkQuest.org ] by Kristina FisherRoberts The Solomon Society is a traditional values group thatbelieve the Bible has a different value for pi than the traditional value. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213924/religous.html

Home About Us Interactive Information History ... Religous Connections Religous Connections by Kristina Fisher-Roberts The Solomon Society is a traditional values group that believe the Bible has a different value for Pi than the traditional value. Most people in the scientific and mathematic communities believes Pi to be a transcendental, infinite number, 3.14159. . . However Leonard Lee Lawson, a member of the Solomon Society claims that "The Bible very clearly says in 1Kings 7:23 that the alter font of Solomon's Temple was ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter, and that it was round in compass. The Bible does not say that the font was thirty something cubits. Plain reading says thirty-cubits. Period." Mr. Lawson claims that based on Biblical facts the value of pi is exactly three. This is one of the main beliefs of the Solomon Society. In Huntsville, Alabama, Lawson and members of the Solomon Society lobbied the Alabama state Legislature to change the value of pi to three (3) exactly. There was much support during a letter writing campaign by members of the Solomon Society. Due to pressure from the Solomon Society, Governor Guy Hunt, signed Pi as "3" into law. Instead of 3.14, on Wednesday, February 27th, 2002. Professionals in the mathematics community feel much like Kim Johansen, a mathematician at the University Of Alabama who say that pi is a universal constant and cannot arbitrarily be changed by lawmakers. She further explained that pi is defined in mathematics as 3.14159, plus as many more digits as you have time to calculate.

84. Pi: Notional Value 3.160493 ? Notional value for pi 3.16049382716. 1.333333. to an index or power ^4. .0987654320987654320.times 32 .888888. or 1.125 64 divided by 82944 equals .166666. http://www.vorpublishing.com/notional_value_for_pi_by_kevin_trinder.html

Welcome to Kevin Trinder's work in progress for the self-publishing of: NUMBER THEORY an unqualified demonstration June 1996 (Kevin Trinder's reconciliation and research of, "the theory of numbers") ISBN 0-646-28727-3 Notional value for pi: 1.333333. to an index or power ^4. .0987654320987654320. times 32 .888888. or 1.125 64 divided by 82944 equals .166666. to an index or power ^4. pi equation for the square root of three 9 times 32 8 times 36 Kevin Trinder's notional equation for: Recurring Didgits Wholeness (without limitation) September 17th 1999 ... positive integer/non-negative number 1728.

85. Value Of 'PI' The value of 'pi'. to a precision of 10,000 digits as computed byMathematica. It only took my computer with a 475MHz processor http://www.angelfire.com/ego/philster/sliderule/mathematica.html

The Value of 'Pi' to a precision of 10,000 digits as computed by Mathematica. It only took my computer with a 475-MHz processor about 1/2 second to perform this calculation, which is probably a lot less time than it took you to download this webpage. ;-) Converted by Mathematica August 6, 2000

86. The Rational New Pi Accurate Value Resolution This text exposes the method of determination of a new precise natural constantvalue for pi. The determination of a rational new and accurate pi value. http://www.dakhi.org/somen41.htm

The dakhiometry Evolution of the universe Tan Tai NGUYEN The determination of the natural constant Pi with the compass and the rule. After succeeding to square a circle and to do the reverse operation, it was prove that during theses operations the different surfaces remain constant. A new method of different form surface comparisons was established. The transformations of matter is a permanent construction of the universe. After these new knowledge of surface relationships, it is time to think on the fundamental natural constant value that sciences and technologies need for their developments. This text exposes the method of determination of a new precise natural constant value for Pi. A natural factor of form change Somebody shouts : - "DRAWING EQUALITY SYMBOLE" ! "DESSIN + SYMBOLE + EGALITE" ! Actually: The circle and the square surfaces are EQUAL . The total orange surface is obviously EQUAL to the total cyan one. And according to the central symmetry, each of the four orange little surface is EQUAL to each of the cyan one. This is really a natural figure of

87. Bertelsen's Number In Oystein Ore's book Number Theory and Its History (1st Dover edition,1988) the table on page 77 gives the old value pi(10^9) = 50,847,478. http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath049.htm

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88. Pi History History.Category Science Math Recreations Specific Numbers pi......A history of pi. for the great temple of Solomon, built around 950 BC and its interesthere is that it gives p = 3. Not a very accurate value of course and not http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

89. Pi Story a theory, and we should be open to all interpretations. She looks forward to studentshaving the freedom to decide for themselves what value pi should have. http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/Pi-story.html

Pi story HUNTSVILLE, Ala. NASA engineers and mathematicians in this high-tech city are stunned and infuriated after the Alabama state legistature narrowly passed a law yesterday redefining pi, a mathematical constant used in the aerospace industry. The bill to change the value of pi to exactly three was introduced without fanfare by Leonard Lee Lawson (R, Crossville), and rapidly gained support after a letter-writing campaign by members of the Solomon Society, a traditional values group. Governor Guy Hunt says he will sign it into law on Wednesday. The law took the state's engineering community by surprise. "It would have been nice if they had consulted with someone who actually uses pi," said Marshall Bergman, a manager at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. According to Bergman, pi is a Greek letter that signifies the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is often used by engineers to calculate missile trajectories. Prof. Kim Johanson, a mathematician from University of Alabama, said that pi is a universal constant, and cannot arbitrarily be changed by lawmakers. Johanson explained that pi is an irrational number, which means that it has an infinite number of digits after the decimal point and can never be known exactly. Nevertheless, she said, pi is precisly defined by mathematics to be "3.14159, plus as many more digits as you have time to calculate". "I think that it is the mathematicians that are being irrational, and it is time for them to admit it," said Lawson. "The Bible very clearly says in I Kings 7:23 that the alter font of Solomon's Temple was ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter, and that it was round in compass."

90. Analytical Process For Arriving At A Value For Pi. pi is obtained by increasing the number of polygon sides. 4,6,8,10,12, and on to an infinite number of sides. pi is never exact! http://www.wh1.org.uk/Tommy/AnalysisProc.HTM

Pi is obtained by increasing the number of polygon sides. and on to an infinite number of sides. Pi is never exact! Programs are ideal for repetitive analysis.

91. The Value Of "pi" The value of pi . Sara Trechter. Department of English, CSUChico.Abstract. Plurality in the Mississippi Valley Siouan languages is http://www.csuchico.edu/~elzbieta/Sara.html

The Value of "pi" Sara Trechter Department of English, CSU-Chico Abstract Plurality in the Mississippi Valley Siouan languages is typically marked with a clitic in post-verbal position (Lakhota - pi ). Although this morpheme has been traditionally translated as a distributive plural in association with either the agent or patient, its meaning is actually comitative, meaning that that action of the verb to which the morpheme attaches was accomplished "with others." This is exemplified by the fact that in Lakhota, in a few rare instances, the topical agent of the sentence is singular and the verb is "plural": winyan ni-thawa kin phehinzhi-la thi el a- wicha -khiyagla-pe-lo Your wife (with others) took them to Little Light-haired-one's place. This paper traces the functional development of a reconstructed verb meaning "to be with" in the MVS languages as it grammaticizes in different discourse constructions to indicate verbal plurals and or topic. As the comitative is used regularly with singular arguments such as in the Dhegiha languages, it comes to indicate the topic status of the singular agent or patient.

92. Is The Bible Wrong About Pi? pi Gets In Your Eye Does the Bible Give a Wrong value for pi? JamesPatrick Holding. 1 Kings 723 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits http://www.tektonics.org/piwrong.html

Pi Gets In Your Eye Does the Bible Give a Wrong Value for Pi? James Patrick Holding 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. (see also 2 Chron. 4:2) This is a very old chestnut that complains that the measurements given for the circular bath do not give a proper value for pi. There are a couple of answers to this, one of which we give a link to below, and which is better than the one I have here. The more common answer is that these verses give an estimate of pi that is rounded to the nearest full digit. Interestingly it was a skeptic who, in the 153rd issue of the Biblical Errancy newsletter, issued this criticism: I can say that it must be 31.4159265...cubits, not 31.4. We all make an agreement to round to a certain place. Remembering that the circumference was not necessarily a calculation, but an observation, probably done by using a forearm as a ruler, it would be logical to round to the nearest cubit. Any diameter from 9.5 cubits to 10.5 cubits would round to 10 cubits.... The reportage would be correct, rounded to the nearest unit.... in the days when basins were measured by forearms, the nearest cubit was as good reporting as you could get, and in the case of the above-mentioned possible "precise" measurements, can indeed be an accurate representation of what was there. McKinsey's reply to this was quite interesting. We'll consider it in pieces:

93. New Theory On The Value Of `pi' Variety Next. New theory on the value of `pi'. MK.Anil. MANGALORE,June 15. A TEACHER of mathematics from Mangalore is said to have http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/06/16/stories/181644mt.htm

Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, June 16, 2001 AGRI-BUSINESS CORPORATE INDUSTRY LOGISTICS ... Next New theory on the value of `pi' M.K.Anil MANGALORE, June 15 A TEACHER of mathematics from Mangalore is said to have made a discovery which, if accepted by the international community of mathematicians, could make a difference in a variety of calculations ranging from missile technology to computations of a less violent nature. According to Stephen Vadakkan, the nephew of a `social reformer' from Thrissur in Kerala who has studied in the US and London and worked for the Kuwait Air Force before returning to India in 1990, the correct value of `pi' is not the conventional 22/7 or 3.1415926... but 18/the square root of 33 or 3.1333978... The new method worked out by Vadakkan is said to be based on constant circular speed pendulums and substitutes time for space to prove that circumference/diameter is constant, thus paving the way for calculating a `more accurate' value for pi. Starting with the theorem that trisecting an angle of 60 degrees using only a straight edge and compass is impossible, Vadakkan first sets out to disprove what has become a part of mathematical common sense. ``One of the theorems in Frederick Stevenson's book `Exploring Real Numbers' posts the impossibility of trisection with a straight edge and compass. But actually it is surprisingly easy if one uses speed and time to measure distance and not the conventional method of space and length,'' says Vadakkan. ``It is something that can be done by a student in Class VIII.''

94. Pi From The Vedas : Value And Calculation the diameter of a circle.. and how on earth does one compute the valueof pi to 30+ places? The tragedy is that such masterpieces http://www.pa.uky.edu/~ameya/pi.html

Ancient Sanskrit scholars "hid" many things behind normal shlokas. One key to uncover the hidden meaning goes like: kaadinava Taadinava paadipanchakam yaadyashhtakah kshha shunyam According to this "key", the alphabets are given values as (the sequence of Sanskrit alphabets): k kha ga gha cha chhha ja jha jyan Ta Tha Da Dha Na ta tha da dha pa pha ba bha ma ya ra la va sha shha sa ha Vowels, gya and kshha have a value of zero. Now, apply this key to the following shloka: go pi bhaag ya ma dhuv raa ta shrin gi shoda dhi san dhi ga kha laa jee vi ta khaa taa va ga la haa taa ra san dhara What one obtains is the value of p correct to 31 places after the decimal point This is taken from the page of Ramesh Raskar : http://www.cs.unc.edu/~raskar/ My additions : This shloka (verse), at first read describes the Gods Vishnu and Shiva, separately. Nobody would even think it had this third interpretation ... IT ALSO HAS A FOURTH ONE (cf. Vedic Mathematics) It also contains a generating formula for obtaining even higher decimal places !!!!! Well, no idea how that works, but do we have reason to not believe it ?!?

95. Creation Science Evangelism Print this page. The Bible and the value of pi Does the Bible containa mathematical error? I Kings 723–26 and II Chronicles http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=articles&specific=9

96. Generation5.org - Evolve Pi Project For example, the fitness function could return the error between a fixed value ofpi and the value passed to it define gPI 3.14159f float error_pi(float value http://www.generation5.org/projects/evolvepi.shtml

Home Essays Interviews Programs ... Search Search: Evolve Pi This is a very simple exercise that will allow you to see how genetic algorithms work. Try and evolve pi! This exercise obviously assumes you have read the basic Generation5 GA essays Outline While this sounds rather complicated it is very easy. Create a population of floating point numbers and run it through a fitness function. Then average all the good values together to create the next generation. Keep on going until you're satified with the results. Guidelines This project is very open because there are many ways to do it. For example, the fitness function could return the error between a fixed value of pi and the value passed to it: This would only evolve a value as good as the constant defined. You could use data that relates a radius of a circle with the circumference. Again, that would only evolve pi as good as defined in the data. Try different methods. For a high-precision evaluation, I used Texas Instruments' Derive 5 to generate pi to 100 decimal places: Again, you can keep evolving until you reach a certain precision, x-number of iterations, or you can keep it going infinitely until you otherwise specify.

97. Pi THE HOLY BIBLE KNEW ABOUT THE CORRECT value FOR pi LONG BEFORE VIETEof 1593 AD DID! by Don Hewey, email donhewey@konline.com http://www.1john57.com/1kings723.htm

THE HOLY BIBLE KNEW ABOUT THE CORRECT VALUE FOR PI LONG BEFORE VIETE of 1593 A.D. DID! by Don Hewey, email: donhewey@k-online.com main index NOTE : This outline will clearly illustrate the "inside" circumference of the molten sea (solid brass tub) which is the non-brimmed portion of the molten sea. The confusion over 1 Kings 7:23 is that the reader automatically assumes that the thirty cubits stated in verse 23 is the corresponding circumference of the outer uttermost brimmed edge. It is not. For a complete discussion on the outer portion of the molten sea, please refer to this link here that gives the proof. outer circumference proof . The exact physical represention as it is written in verse 23 is physically impossible as one should immediately become suspicious of. But with further examination of this outline and also the "yfiles" link, the bible not only proves PI once, but twice! Amazing. Please refer to the molten sea diagram representation half way down this page for an illustration to this problem. "1 Kings 7:[23] And he made a molten sea, ten

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