Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!brl-vgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.math,net.legal,net.misc Subject: Re: State law defining Pi (part 3 of 3: annotated text of the bill) Message-ID: <3076@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 01:42:01 EST Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.3076 Posted: Sat Mar 31 01:42:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Mar-84 10:08:24 EST References: <814@dciem.UUCP>, <815@dciem.UUCP>, <816@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 4 If anyone is interested in this, I recommend that he read a book by Petr Bergmann (I got the first name right but may have flubbed the last) entitled something like "A History of Pi". It has among other things some more information on attempts to legislate its value.