> Remember when one state (Kansas, Nebraska, or Arkansas, I think it was) > wanted to declare pi = 3, which would've made all the wheels in the > state turn square overnight?
This isn't quite true, but the truth is equally weird. It was a bill with a method to square a circle, which is to find a square with the same area as a given circle, using only a compass and a straightedge. (Something proven to be impossible). The bill made several erroneous and conflicting claims about the value of pi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
