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When Indiana lawmakers tried to redefine pi
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In 1897, the Indiana State Legislature actually debated a bill that would legally declare the mathematical value of Pi to be exactly 3.2. A crank mathematician convinced politicians it was a brilliant discovery. The bill only died because a real mathematics professor happened to be in the building and aggressively shamed them out of passing it.
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