we read about the altar in the temple of Solomon: gAlso he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits of height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round abouth (Pappas). This passage indicates that the circumference of this round gmolten seah equaled thirty cubits and its diameter equaled ten cubits. This would indicate that the Hebrews at this time calculated pi to equal three. The Hebrewfs inaccurate measurement indicates that these Hebrews also calculated pi using primitive equipment just like the Egyptians before them.
             The first people to attempt to calculate pi using reasoning and mathematics not rudimentary equipment were the Greeks. In the late fifth century and early fourth century BCE, two Greek philosophers Antiphon and Bryson of Heraclea attempted to find the area of a circle and therefore pi using a method called exhaustion. The idea behind exhaustion is that if you take a hexagon and keep doubling its sides, sooner or
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