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Therefore

(“Real” circumference) / (“Apparent” circumference) =
X / 30 = 111 / 106

X = 30 (111 / 106) = (10)(333 / 106) = (10)(3.141509)

Since the diameter is 10 cubits (refer to the above quotation), this calculation
implies a value for π of

π = 3.141509

Compared to the true value of π (3.1415926 …), we realize that the calculated

pi gives accuracy to the first four decimal points (if rounding is ignored)!
Relating again to values quoted in Beckmann’s recount of the history of π, we

find out that the accuracy of π in the Bible, if the above clue was correctly inter-
preted at the time, by far exceeds that known even in the times of Archimedes,
who had given the bounds (Beckmann 1974, 66)

3.140845< π <3.142857
(two-decimal-point accuracy).

The first time that an accuracy of three decimal points had been achieved,
according to Beckmann (1974), was only in 1220, by Fibonacci (1180–1250). In
1573, Valentinus Otho calculated π as

355 / 113 = 3.141593
(Beckmann 1974, 196)

This quotient is amazingly close to that implied in the Bible.

These are all coincidences … maybe.