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Since you've already given me that pi is a transcendental, I'll save time and not prove that. All I have to do is prove that 3 is not transcendental. 3 is a root of x^2 - 6x + 9, therefore 3 is not transcendental (a transcendental number cannot be the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients). Since pi is transcendental and 3 is not, and no real number can be both transcendental and not transcendental, pi is not equal to 3.

Math is fun! I'm guessing you've already seen a proof that pi is not 3 (or could've come up with it on your own).

I'm annoyed by the fact that instead of giving you a proof a bunch of people just asserted that you were wrong.

Wait, what? How does that make any sense? Because I avoid math if at all possible, you don't think I can argue religion? Can you explain your reasoning, please?

Pi has something to do with circles though... Circumference divided by diameter. And no matter the size of the circle, you get 3.14............. etc. We call that pi. And it isn't equal to 3. Try plugging 3 into equations you need pi for. It won't work. My sources? Last years Algebra II class and wikipedia!

So pi is infinite. It can never be COMPLETELY calculated. That doesn't make it equal to three. Actually, it pretty much guarantees that it won't be.

In the study of mathematics, π has a value not equals to 3. If you have a different numbering system or a different π, then of course you can be right. Without some generally agreed common knowledge, it is hard to communicate. We are in the human world debating about human created problems.

Believer or non-believer, one has only to measure the diameter of any cylindrical container, then measure a piece of string or tape exactly three times that diameter, and try to put it around the container. It just won't reach. So why not simply accept that the dimensions of Solomon's font are approximate and that the writer of II Kings wasn't a mathematician?

It equally means that you can't prove much of what is in the bible right, either.

No one can prove one way or another if Adam and Eve were the first humans, if Moses ever saw a burning bush, if God destroyed two cities or flooded the earth.

All you question proves is that you can't prove the existence of non-provable data.

Just because it is a transcendental number and therefore we can't know its exact value, we can truncate to some number of fractional places and say that it definitely lies between two values.

So we can truthfully say that 3.1415926 < π < 3.1415927.

And since 3 < 3.1415926, then π cannot be equal to 3. QED.

I was laughing about the Christians agreeing with you before I saw some of the atheists laying into you.

π can be empirically estimated by drawing a large circle, then measuring its diameter and circumference and dividing the circumference by the diameter. If you're anywhere halfway decent at math and measuring you will not get 3. QED.

You can't prove a negative. The burden of evidence isn't on me, so I don't have to prove that π isn't 3, any more than I have to prove the Bible wrong.

Because 3 is only a piece of Pi, Make mine blueberry, please (LOL). However Pi IS equal, exactly to 22/7. Now if you want to spend the rest of eternity computing it to the Nth place, be my guest but I have a few other things that I'd like to do and computing Pi is NOT on that list...... LOL

Brightest Blessings,

Raji the Green Witch

Make a vessel that has a diameter of 10 cubits and then measure the circumference.

By guess is a bit under 31 and a half cubits.

Q.E.D.