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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Spring Equilux Approaches ! Repent now !
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 01:10:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 01:10:35 1986
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Summary: The true "pi act" story, briefly


Chris Benenati (chrisb@dadla.UUCP) writes:
> Perhaps we could start a petition initiative to get them legally changed,
> so they both occur at exactly 6:00.

Hmm, why don't we just go to Saudi Arabian time? :-)

> (I confess to being inspired by
> a bill was once introduced into the, I think, Tennessee state legislature
> to get PI set to 3 so it would be easier to work with).

It was Indiana, it was 3.2, and that was not the reason.
The reason was that an innumerate member of the legislature
accepted a submission from a quack mathematician who thought
that pi WAS 3.2 and that all the textbooks were wrong.  The
act passed in the state's House, came to public notice, and
was killed in their Senate.

Mark Brader