On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:12:20PM -0500, Adam Moskowitz wrote: > Joseph S D Yao wrote: > > Unfortunately, this is a per-state thing. Like the value of pi. > Sorry, no: http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp
And it was such a good story! I don't think this was what I read, though. There was nothing about religion associated with this memory. I was probably thinking of this: "... In 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of pi. ..." and may have been influenced by this [but I WAS thinking of Indiana]: "... In his 1961 novel <I>Stranger in a Strange Land</I>, Robert Heinlein makes passing mention of Tennessee's enacting a law making pi equal 3.0" Back then I was not QUITE as critical of what I was reading ... -- /*********************************************************************\ ** ** Joe Yao j...@tux.org - Joseph S. D. Yao ** \*********************************************************************/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
