Pi
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
[1 Kings 7:23]
This apparently harmless statement from the Bible suggests that the value of pi is not 3.14..., but infact a whole number 3. Probably one of the most celebrated and hoaxed pranks in the field of science was the bill to change the value of pi from an irrational constant to the more religiously-inclined number "3", which created a ruckus in the community at the time.
[1 Kings 7:23]
This apparently harmless statement from the Bible suggests that the value of pi is not 3.14..., but infact a whole number 3. Probably one of the most celebrated and hoaxed pranks in the field of science was the bill to change the value of pi from an irrational constant to the more religiously-inclined number "3", which created a ruckus in the community at the time.
