Indiana Pi Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite ...
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The Indiana Pi Bill, 1897 ... 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. Section 1;
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A Midwestern state (which one varies with the telling) was so unsophisticated that its legislature once passed a law declaring the value of the mathematical constant pi to be 4 (or 3, or 3.2, or some other ... In 1897 one of them, a physician named Edwin J. Goodwin, from the wonderfully named town of Solitude, Indiana,
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The story continually surfaces about the Indiana Legislature's attempted or actual redefinition of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to be the value 3. Petr Beckmann relates the history of Indiana House Bill 246 of 18 January 1897, in which Edwin J. Goodman, MD, proposes to give some of...
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www.du.edu/~jcalvert/humor/pi.htm
www.du.edu/~jcalvert/humor/pi.htm
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In 1897 a bill was proposed in the Indiana Legislature that would have legally established the value of pi. This value would then have been copyrighted and used in state math textbooks. Other states would have to pay to use this value.
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Add Indiana to the list of states that are considering or have closed vital records to the public. As with many of these reactive, ill-considered bills the legislature claims closure would protect citizens ... us-news, indiana, public-records, is-news, birth-records, vital-records, death-records, indiana-legislature...
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Daily experiments in LGBTQ Hoosier style ... Filed under: Life in Flyover Country | State & Local Politics Tags: indiana legislature | marriage | pi | pie | SJR7 | sugar cream pie Related Files...
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indiana.bilerico.com/2009/01/the_indiana_legislatures_p...
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So much for the bill regarding the value of \pi. Before we laugh too hard at the legislature of Indiana or at the state of education in 1897, I think we should have a moment of silence as we contemplate what fate the bill might have if it were brought up for a referendum today.
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tafkac.org/legal/pi_indiana.html
tafkac.org/legal/pi_indiana.html
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