RobotToasterTIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2
TheTechnician27We have an article about this as well on Wikipedia that looks like it could use a little improving. The bill itself was titled:
A Bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the Legislature of 1897
themeatbridgeRoyalties? Did they think there’s some descendants of an ancient Babylonian mathematician living large on the residuals?