Chutzpah! FBI Calls Privacy Extremists Elitist

[Paul Foley]

Fisher Mark <FisherM at 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  Don't know when it was repealed.

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