Reply #8: Actually, according to some accounts I have read, [View All]

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around that time, pi was defined as three. Engineers, builders and mathematicians knew better, of course, but the highly prized knowledge of pure math was deemed as almost holy--too good for the commoners and, to keep them in their place, such larnin' was kept from them. The well trained and talented were also quite arrogant.

It was well known that there existed no real number ratio, using any numbering system available to them, that could define pi. We have no better definition today, other than cut and fit, to determine the relationship of circumference to diameter.
Some of the better texts that describe the history of the pyramids also bring up the point that, for a long time, pi was considered to equal three.