[1060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing wars pending?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom 'moof' Spindler)
Thu Nov 16 17:24:06 1995
From: dogcow@piglet.merit.net (Tom 'moof' Spindler)
To: GAVRON@ACES.COM (Ehud Gavron)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:04:33 -0500 (EST)
Cc: michael@memra.com, Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net, alan@gi.net,
nanog@merit.edu, jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu, HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il,
nanog@dune.silkroad.com, big-internet@munnari.oz.au, cidrd@iepg.org,
little@faline.bellcore.com, GAVRON@ACES.COM
In-Reply-To: <01HXPPLND9PE00002U@ACES.COM> from "Ehud Gavron" at Nov 16, 95 02:14:41 pm
Actually, the (original) explanation is correct. The state was Indiana.
Read about it in Petr Beckmann's "History of Pi" if you're interested
about it. I believe it has the full story.
> It was a small community in Alabama that voted (for their town) to
> allow PI to equal 3 for the purpose of calculating square footage
> for property tax.
>
> That's it. No grand scheme to defraud Southern schoolkids, no legislation
> of ip_v !=4, just something to make taxes simple.
>
> >> They also passed a bill once to make PI 3 or some such, didn't they?
>
> >In the state where this happened it was passed by their congress but was
> >vetoed in their senate so it never became law.
