Does the bible say that Pi = 3?

23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits[o] to measure around it. 24 Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea. – 1 Kings 7:23-24

I’m not sure what a “Sea” is, but it’s circular (sounds like a cylinder), has a diameter of 10 cubits, and it takes 30 cubits to go around it – the circumference.  But we know now that Pi * D = Circumference, …

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