Ancient math

Very ancient.

Bible Math

1 Kings 7:23

“Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.”

Pi = c/d, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

So, yes, Pi = 3, according to this interesting and ancient passage of the Bible. 

And every word in the Bible is the literal, God's own truth, as some would have it. 

Though there are lots of absurdities in the Good Book people who glibly insist they believe that have no idea of.

Some but not all of them represent differences between what, of a non-religious nature, was known or believed about the world when the Bible text at issue was fixed, once and for all, and what is believed or known today.

The massive evidence of natural history for a very long period of evolution of life on Earth, wholly unknown to the Bible's authors, while the most egregious example, is just the tip of the iceberg.

Bible absurdities

Absurdities in the Bible

P.S.

During the Middle Ages, the Church condemned as heretical the Aristotelian idea that species were fixed and the world and the species inhabiting it were eternal.

The Church agreed with the fixity of species but insisted the world had a beginning, and that this was not contrary to reason in any way. 

Only much later did a Protestant bishop settle the date of creation famously mentioned during the Scopes trial. 

Leaving popular American Protestantism committed to an account of things doubly contradicted by the evidence of natural history.