Odinn wrote:
On 10/6/2005 8:37 AM Doug Miller mumbled something about the following:
In article , justme wrote:

In article ,
says...

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).

Well, maybe for large values of 3 :-)


No, I mean about the legislature nearly voting to declare pi = 3.


For a value of 'nearly' = never got out of comittee.

3.2 actually.


For a system of arithmetic in which 221/7 = 3.2, actually.

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