[ShadowAce]

Why would you think the surveyors would clamber into the bowl to take one measure, or clamber out of the bowl to take the other?

I think it more probable that the writer just eyeballed it,and came up with an approximation.

[donh]

I think it more probable that the writer just eyeballed it,and came up with an approximation.

Could be. The thing is, I am being offered the words of the bible as the unerrent final word in science and morality here on this thread. Can I take it that the Commandment against adultery is also an approximation? Could it be that God meant I should USUALLY not mess around with my neighbor's wife?