It's a joke.
Heinlein jokingly wrote in 1969 about some fictionl legislature trying to
legislate pi to be exactly three in "Stranger in a Strange Land".
Someone else started this urban myth.
Here's a reference about it you can trust:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctc676.htm
Headline:
Net hoax on pi just won't die
I found this easily, by STFW. I looked for "Leonard Lee Lawson" and found
36 pages, including the link above. All call it a hoax.
Heinlein was right, though, in his predictions about societal
direction. That's for another forum, though. ;-)
At 04:15 AM 2/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Is this story really ??
>Where is going our society ?? :-)
>
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> > HUNTSVILLE, Ala.-NASA engineers and mathematicians in this high-tech
> > city are stunned and infuriated after the Alabama state legislature
> > narrowly passed a law Monday redefining pi, a mathematical constant
> > used widely in the aerospace industry. The bill to change the value of pi
> > to exactly three was introduced without fanfare by Leonard Lee
> > Lawson (R, Crossville), and rapidly gained support after a letter-writing
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