[87231] in Cypherpunks
Re: Chutzpah! FBI Calls Privacy Extremists Elitist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Foley)
Sat Sep 27 00:19:54 1997
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 27 Sep 1997 13:48:50 +1200
In-Reply-To: Fisher Mark's message of Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:09:54 -0500
Reply-To: Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz>
Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com> writes:
> Alas (according to my failing memory) it was legislator from my home
> state of Indiana during the early part of this century, who had planned
> to make a killing in textbooks if Pi == 3.0 was accepted. Fortunately
> he was called on it when it went before the whole legislature.
It was pi == 4.0, not 3.0, and was in fact enacted by the General
Assembly of Indiana in 1897. Don't know when it was repealed.
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