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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.

Indiana. Three-point-two.

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.

Purdue University has the full story he
http://www.agecon.purdue.
edu/crd/Localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/Indiana_Pi_Story.htm

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.