Re: The moment the willing suspension of disbelief died

rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> But there's no such thing as an infinite number of digits, is there!
>
> However, if you multiply 10 by pi and then round, you get 31. Unless
> the language in the original is 1 dekacubit, 3 dekacubits.

The language is definitely not greek. The language is Hebrew, so
there is a single character for 30, and a single character for 10,
but no single character for 31.

Rounding off to the nearest 10 is perfectly reasonable.

In fact rounding off to the nearest 10 is perfectly reasonable
in English writing it out, or for that matter in English using
Arabic numerals.

But Even if you insist on rounding to the nearest integer for
some insane reason then the actual numbers can easily be 30
and 9.549.... Or any number of other combinations that round
to 10 and 30.

The extremes people will go to to claim that this is an
error or inconsistancy when the bible is full of worse problems
really amaze me.

DougL

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