There was a true attempt in 1897, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill Cheers, Seb On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:11, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
As believable as this article is, April 1 seems to have arrived early this year. The Huffington Post article is a hoax.
--Dan
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
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