From: rollo@artvark.com (Rollo Silver)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:23:07 +0800
To: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Subject: Re: Let's *NOT* "Raise their Awareness"
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>>On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:

>>Yes, and some years ago a State legislature (I forget which) passed a
>>resolution setting the value of pi at exactly 3.

Well, this one has a grain of truth in it, but has drifted a bit in the telling.

>From <alt.folklore.urban>'s FAQ:

T. *Indiana House Bill #246 of 1897 would've set pi=3.2. Killed in state Senate.

Fb. Some state (e.g., KS, OK, etc.) once considered a bill setting pi = 3
(or some other arbitrary, non-transcendental number).

Key to Listed FAQs:
T  = 100% scientific truth
Tb = believed true, but not conclusively proven
F  = 100% falsehood
Ft = A legend, mostly untrue, but with a true occurrence or known origin.
Fb = believed false, but not conclusively proven

There is a comment, "*", on certain lines in the FAQ.  This indicates that
there is further information on this point available via anonymous ftp.
See the AFU anonymous ftp sites noted in Part I of the FAQ for more
information.

The four part FAQ for alt.folklore.urban is also available via anonymous
ftp at rtfm.mit.edu.  You can retrieve them by grabbing the following
files:
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part1
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part2
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part3
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part4
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part5
Or heck, just do:
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part*

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