How would you have him describe it? Their units of measurement were usually in whole numbers. He was talking in cubits. Should he have said "...thirty cubits and a small fraction that I'm not going to describe"?
Better to not mention the circumference than to give a wrong value for it.
1,511 posted on 02/22/2006 9:07:45 AM PST by Thatcherite
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