1 Kings 7:23

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1 Kings 723

• 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.

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PI In The Bible

• Eric Tucker
• December 1, 1999

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PI Defined and Background

• PI ? circumference / diameter c / d
• ? is the same for all size circles
• ? 3.14159265359.
• Describing Solomons temple

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1 Kings 723

• 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.
• c 30 cubits, d 10 cubits
• ? c / d 30 / 10 3

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Cubits

• What is a cubit?
• Cubit length from fingertip to elbow.
• Cubit 18 inches. My cubit 17.5 inches.

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Perfect Circle?

• ? c / d only works for a circle.
• Round all about could be many shapes

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Purpose Describe Temples Furnishings

• Purpose was not to reveal value of ?
• How could purpose be to reveal value of ? since
• they didnt know of a special relationship
  between circumference and diameter
• they didnt have any notation of ?
• ? is irrational.

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Cubits and Rounding

• One person measured circumference, one measured
  diameter.
• All cubit measurements are given as whole
  numbers.
• If C 30, for correct value of ?, D 9.55
  cubits which rounds to 10.

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Original Hebrew Text

• Circumference line ?? and ??? in Hebrew
• In Hebrew, letters are also numbers
  ? 100, ? 6, ? 5
• Add ? ? ? 111
• Add ? ? 106
• Take ratio 111/106 1.0471698
• Multiply 3 x 1.0471698 3.14150943
• Error is only .00026

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Brim To Brim and Hand breadth

• Assumed

C 30, d 10 ? 30/10 3
1 Kings 726 says, It is a hand breadth in
thickness Hand breadth 4 inches.
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Brim To Brim and Hand breadth

• Assumed

? c / d
d
c
Possibly
d d - 2x
d
x
x
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Brim To Brim and Hand breadth

• d d - 2x
• ? c / d
• ? c / (d - 2x)
• For cubit 17.75 in. and x 4 in.,
• c 30 X 17.75 532.5 in.
• d 10 X 17.75 177.5 in.
• ? 532.5 / 177.5 - 2 (4) 3.14159

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Works Cited

• 1 Kings 723, 25. 4 Chron. 42. Holy Bible.
  King James Version.
• The Bible and the Value of PI. Creation
  Science Evangelism on-line serial. Available
  www.drdino.com/Articles/Article10.htm
• Weisstein, E. (1999, November). Pi.
  Treasure-Troves. Available www.treasure-troves.co
  m/math/Pi.htm
• Graf, B. Graf theory. Available
  www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/histscellaneous/othe
  r_links/Graf_theory.html
• Katz, J. PI in the Bible. Available
  www.direct.ca/trinity/pi.html.
• EMAIL eatuck1_at_pop.uky.edu

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1 Kings 723

• 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.

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