Okay, One state 106 years ago. :)From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:46:23 -0600> From: Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: EU thought crimes > >Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:05:16 -0600 > > > > > From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > > > > > > As a sidenote, in America the Holocaust was established > > > > by a court case as a fact and thus technically holocaust > > > > deniers could be taken to court on that basis. > > > > > > > Uh? Does it mean that someone could be taken to a > > > court by claiming that Pi = 4? Or by denying Evolution? > > > >Several states have _tried_ to return pi to the biblical value of 3. > > I was **sure** this was an urban legend... snopes bears me out: "There is > not now and never has been a bill in front of the Alabama state legislature > to redefine the value of pi." > > > Though the claim about the Alabama state legislature is pure nonsense, it is > similar to an event that happened more than a century ago. In 1897 the > Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the > area of a circle and the value of pi. (House Bill no. 246, introduced by > Rep. Taylor I. Record.) The bill died in the state Senate. Which is what I was reffering to.
*grin*
Jon
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