OT: Anniversary of the "Indiana Pi Bill"

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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.)

That makes about as much sense as the recent changes in daylight savings
time foisted on the U.S. by the brain-dead legislature.

Bill
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