Happy π day!
To celebrate, let's look back at this 127-year-old bill that was passed in the Indiana House of Representatives which attempted to legislate a wildly incorrect solution to the squaring a circle problem and thereby legalize an incorrect value of π.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
#mathematics #math #maths #pi #PiDay
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