The above biblical verse was found in the list of specifications of King Solomon's Temple that was built around 950 BC. There are historical evidences to prove that the area of a circle was calculated by taking 3 times the square of its radius by the Babylonians. An ancient Babylonian tablet found between the 1900 - 1680 BC had the value of pi as 3.125. Ancient Egyptians calculated the area of a circle using the formula [(8d)/9]2. Where "d" is the diameter of the circle. This formula gives an approximate pi value of 3.1605. An ancient mathematician, Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived between 287 - 212 BC, derived the value of pi based upon the area of a regular polygon inscribed within the circle and the area of a regular polygon within which the circle was circumscribed.