Aug 8 2012
6:22 pm

In 1897, Indiana tried to pass a bill stating that pi is equal to 3.2, as opposed to its truly infinite value, but it never became law due to intervention by a Purdue University professor.

(Source: Wired, via quantumaniac)

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    And that is just one reason why Indiana sucks. South Bend has a law that states that you can’t get on a bus within 4...
  7. craze-amaze reblogged this from sunshineuncertaintyprinciple and added:
    It would have been interesting to see infrastructure fall to it’s knees in the face of an incorrect calculation of pi
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    It’s true. Hoosiers fail that hard.
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    wait can this be true
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