The Yellow Brick Road leads nowhere...

[Richard Jensen]

Similarly, although I don't have a refernce in hand, the same thing
happened in Indiana, except the value 3.00 was chosen.  Fortunately, an
officer of the Indiana Academy of Science happened to be on hand when the
bill was being voted on and was able to quash it.

 On Thu, 12 Aug 1999,
James Matta wrote:

> >But don't forget that another plains state legislature (Nebraska?) once passed >a law that the value of pi would henceforth be 4.00.
>
> This is so far off the wall that it absolutely cannot possibly be true! (So of course it is.)  Does anybody have a reference for this?  It would be great in developing an example of the relationship between physical laws and public opinion.
>
> Jim Matta
> jmatta at bloomu.edu
>

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