M Watts wrote:
> Mike Solomon wrote:
> > 5) I read that the biblical definition of pi is 3 (1 Kings 7:23).
M,
I wrote that, not Mike. And you're right -- The Bible makes no such
claim. This was really just a reference to a comment in Mike's
code:
;more or less the approximation from the bible
(PI 3.14159265)
It would have been better had I worded it this way:
"I read that the biblical approximation of pi is not 3.14159265."
> 2) Or, if you insist that biblical authors were too stupid to
> round off figures...
I'm not insisting anything.
> > In guile, (angle -1) returns pi accurate to 14 decimal places.
> >
> Good for guile; but any decimal expression of pi remains an
> approximation.
Of course. But 14 decimal places should be enough for the fingering
chart. (: And (angle -1) is a pretty neat trick, don't you think?
- Mark
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