Doug Miller wrote:
In article .com, wrote:

Few scientists will fall for the egg/equinox legend but _The
State Legislature set pi = 3_ is rather popular among them.

You know, don't you, that *that* one is actually true (or nearly so).


I've heard it asserted for Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana.

IIRC, it came closest (and not very, but please do check)
to being true for Indiana. At the suggestion of a person
described as a math crackpot a bill suggesting
several values for pi (including 221/70) was introduced
into a committee in the state legislature. That commitee
decided it wasn't their baliwick and sent it over to another
commitee where a member (chairman perhaps) consulted with
a mathematician on the subject after which the bill died.

ISTR that this was part of the old UseNet FAQ, back when
the UseNet had but a single FAQ.



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