On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > There's a difference though. Nobody has tried to legislate the value of pi to > match your casual reference to "about 1900 square feet", but there's been at > least one serious attempt to legislate the value of pi to match the implied > value given by the Bible.
If you're referring the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897, it was actually a poorly conceived attempt to publish an amateur mathematician's claim of a way to square the circle. It had nothing to do with biblical interpretation and would have implied a value for pi of 3.2, not 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill I'm not aware of any other such legislative attempts. Snopes records one that allegedly occurred in Indiana but dismisses the claim as false. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
