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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Who said pi was 3?
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 20:36:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 20:36:00 1986
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> ...(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).

The reasons for this 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.

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