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September 20
Iniana state PI redifinition: "Establishing scientific truth by legislative fiat."
"The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, which is one of the most famous historical attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite its popular name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than the establishment of the value of π. Nevertheless, the bill does contain text which appears to dictate varying wrong values of π such as 3.2. Note that the impossibility of squaring the circle (using only compass and straightedge), suspected since ancient times, was first rigorously proved in 1882 by von Lindemann, and better approximations of π have been known since ancient times."
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