@belltake.social: Indiana, 1897: the House voted 67 to 0 for a bill that made pi 3.2. Luckily, one mathematician was in the building. Sources: the bill and the 1897 House and Senate Journals, reprinted by W. E. Edington, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 45 (1935) · C. A. Waldo, "What Might Have Been", same, 26 (1916) · A. E. Hallerberg, "House Bill No. 246 Revisited", same, 84 (1975) #math #pi #History #indiana #Science

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