On Dec 24, 2003, at 3:38 PM, Robert Steck wrote: [..]
Ah, but my friend Drieux, you apparently did not have the unalloyed pleasure[..]
of growing up in Texas in the 1950's, a time when the Texas Legislature came
within a whisker of passing a law stipulating that from now on PI would
equal exactly 3.14, full stop -- no more of that Commie-inspired unending
decimal places for us Texans!
I can appreciate that Texas is a bit behind the times, but the gag was first put forward in indiana in 1897. <http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/indiana_pi_bill.html>
But then again, mathematicians are the canaries in the coal mine, watch for us to move, we will be leaving before the Jews....
ciao drieux
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