The stupidity and innumeracy of Americans, and in particular American fundamentalists, never ceases to astound me.
\nRecently on Yahoo, some bozo posted [something claiming that the bible was all correct][yahoo], and that genetics would show that bats were actually birds. But that’s not the real prize. The *real* prize of the discussion was in the ensuing thread.
\nA doubter posted the following question:
\n>please explain 1 kings 7.23 and how a circle can have a circumference of 30 of
\n>a unit and a radiius of 10 of a unit and i will become a christian
\n>
\n>23 And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other;
\n>it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty
\n>cubits measured its circumference. (1 Kings 7:23, NKJV)
\nAnd the answer is one of the all-time greats of moronic innumeracy:
\n>Very easy. You are talking about the value of Pi.
\n>That is actually 3 not 3.14…….
\n>The digits after the decimal forms a geometric series and
\n>it will converge to the value zero. So, 3.14…..=3.00=3.
\n>Nobody still calculated the precise value of Pi. In future
\n>they will and apply advenced Mathematics to prove the value of Pi=3.
\n[yahoo]: http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/?qid=20060808164320AAl8z7K&r=w#EsArCTu7WTNaDSL.CVTGFHpKzx2nixwD70ICPWo2wTRcAQawQUIY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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