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Indiana Pi Bill Declared the Value of Pi as 3.2

In 1897, the Indiana Pi Bill declared the value of pi as 3.2, a nice, round, but wrong number. It passed the Indiana Assembly unanimously 67 to 0.

It almost became law if not for a math professor who happened to be in the Statehouse lobbying for Purdue University's budget appropriation. Professor Clarence A. Waldo managed to convince Indiana Senators that passing the bill would bring ridicule to the Indiana State Legislature. They postponed the bill indefinitely.


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my old cat mickey taught himself how to use the toliet. My mom would put him in the bathroom at night, I cant remamber why she did, but my kittie started peeing in my potty (i was toliet training at the time) after we took the potty away it just started using the toliet.
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