17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com> writes:
Alas (according to my failing memory) it was legislator from my home state of Indiana during the early part of this century, who had planned to make a killing in textbooks if Pi == 3.0 was accepted. Fortunately he was called on it when it went before the whole legislature.
It was pi == 4.0, not 3.0, and was in fact enacted by the General Assembly of Indiana in 1897. Don't know when it was repealed. -- Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz> --- PGP-encrypted mail preferred PGP key ID 0x1CA3386D available from keyservers fingerprint = 4A 76 83 D8 99 BC ED 33 C5 02 81 C9 BF 7A 91 E8