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Originally posted by blitz77:
By using the word used for circumference and what they actually used for circumference (which had an extra letter), comparing the ratio of the numbers of these words (remember, Hebrew attaches a number to each letter) they found that the error is only 0.00026% as compared to Babylon's error of 0.0165926% and Egypt's error of 0.0189012%.
If nothing else, it is an extreme coincidence then isn't it?
The word used in Hebrew in Jeremiah according to the
Biblia Hebraica Stuggartensia is Kaph Vau He. Strangely enough the word translates as 'yarn' (Hebrew Lexicon,
http://www.onlinebible.com) among other things. That is, it refers to a string. Pretty reasonable word choice for describing a means to measure a circle.
In other words, it ain't an extra letter, it is a different word.
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