From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:10:01 +0800
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Let's *NOT* "Raise their Awareness"
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Timothy C. May wrote:
> By the way, this is a wonderful story to tell about the stupidity of
> government, but, alas, most of it is urban legend. The Tennessee or
> Kentucky (I forget which) state legislature did not actually pass such a
> law....it was merely _proposed_ by some particular legislator, and then
> never acted upon.

"A history of pi". P. Beckman. Golem Press, CO, 1971 

If you haven't read it, do so.  A wonderfully opinionated little book.

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