The Indiana Pi Bill, 1897 ... In further proof of the value of the author's proposed contribution to education and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana, is the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle having been already accepted as contributions to science by...
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Cecil had heard this story too, only the state in question was Kansas, ... Although the attempt to legislate pi was ultimately unsuccessful, ... The ratio of 30 cubits for the circumference to 10 cubits for the diameter "from one brim to the other" of the "completely round" circle gives the value of pi as being exactly 3.
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One member of the state school board, Lily Ponja, is anxious to get the new value of pi into the state's math textbooks, ... Funkhouser noted that the Indiana House of Representatives once tried to legislate the value of pi, but the Senate let the bill die after Purdue math professor C.A. Waldo explained the idiocy of putting...
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It has become an icon, representing misguided attempts on the part of legislative bodies to legislate that which cannot be legislated; moves to legislate the value of pi have, at times, erroneously been ascribed to the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama.
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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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Nov 5, 1997 ... Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: It has been found that .... So much for the bill regarding the value of \pi. ... about why the Indiana Stae Legislature tried to legislate Pi as 3.2 exactly. ...
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Although it is commonly believed that the state of Indiana passed, or tried to pass, a law stating that the value of Pi is equal to 3, this was not the case. For a short discussion of this issue see pp. 192-197 of Underwood Dudley's book Mathematical Cranks, 1992 (published by the MAA).
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According to a filing (PDF) with the state's Public Disclosure Commission, Microsoft donated the money Friday to Washington Families ... But the chief executive, speaking to customers and journalists, told them the last time Microsoft tried to simplify its licensing, customer satisfaction "plummeted" for two years.
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Welcome to the P-I's Real Estate blog. Here an assortment of real estate professionals discuss contemporary housing issues, facts, analysis and other information about state and national housing, ... People like to think it gives them some idea of the value of their home, ... Individual agents have tried to pressure banks.
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In arriving at their conclusion that a pimp provides more value than a real estate agent, ... Rather obviously the out of state agents wouldn't know about the Washington law change, but I'm ... I like to read The Last Page first. This month's article made me think of many of you, here in our little PI real estate neighborhood.
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