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From: drh@burl.UUCP (drh)
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Subject: Re: Who said pi was 3?
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Date: Mon, 31-Mar-86 07:59:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 31 07:59:22 1986
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In article <5980011@acf4.UUCP> percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) writes:
>The reasons for [the Tennessee legistature trying to set PI to 3]
>was not so it would be easier to work with:
>they were religious.  Tennessee, being one of the "Bible states,"
>decided to follow the biblical reference that the diameter of a wheel
>is three times larger than the longest distance between two points on
>it.

Can Mr. Percus please supply us with this bible reference?  I can't find
it anywhere.
-- 

Richard Hipp
AT&T Technologies, Burlington, NC
(919)-228-3832				    ...allegra!burl!drh