“And he made the vessel, ten cubits from brim to brim; it was
round all about, and the height was five cubits; and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about (Melachim I 7:23).”
Shlomo clearly knew that the
circumference of a circle is around
3x the diameter.
C ≈ 3·d
That’s a pretty close approximation of
π (3.14159)!

