OT: Anniversary of the "Indiana Pi Bill"

[Kenneth Brody]

I forgot to post this yesterday, the 110th anniversary of the passage
of the "Indiana Pi Bill".

In case you don't know what that is...

The basic story is that the Indiana House of Representatives was duped
into passing (unanimously! 67-0) a law stating, among other things,
that the value of pi was, in fact, exactly 3.2.  (Fortunately, the
Indiana Senate did not pass the bill, but apparently only because a
mathematics professor happened to be visiting the legislature at that
time.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

(There is also a link at the bottom of that page to the full text of
the bill.)

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