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Re: Do you know Pi?
There was an attempt to legislate the value of Pi in Indiana in 1897. Bill #246 would have legally established Pi to be equal to 3.2! The Bill, was introduced by Edwin Goodwin, M.D., with a provision that the State of Indiana could use his copyrighted solution free of charge, but outsiders would have to pay him a royalty! With the backing of the Indiana House Committee on Education, the Bill passed the Indiana House 67-0. Fortunately, a math professor from Purdue (Professor Waldo) was able to convince the State Senators that the bill should be killed. Further consideration of the Bill was postponed indefinitely, and it never appeared in the Indiana Assembly again.
Full details (with a link to the text of the Bill) can be found at: Indiana Pi
P.S. Try working through the "proof" offered in Section 1 and 2 of the bill. It's convoluted and (of course) wrong...
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Last edited by David Brinza : 06-10-2006 at 10:35.
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