Indiana Once Tried to Change Pi to 3.2
Any in high spirits school geometry student worth his or her protractor knows that pi is an irrational number , but if you ’ve get to judge the famous proportion , 3.14 will work in a pinch . That was n’t so much the eccentric in late-19th - century Indiana , though . That ’s when the state ’s legislators tried to return a bill that legally defined the value of shamus as 3....