On Tuesday 21 June 2016 02:01, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> There's a difference though. Nobody has tried to legislate the value of pi >> to match your casual reference to "about 1900 square feet", but there's been >> at least one serious attempt to legislate the value of pi to match the >> implied value given by the Bible. > > If you're referring the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897, it was actually a > poorly conceived attempt to publish an amateur mathematician's claim > of a way to square the circle. It had nothing to do with biblical > interpretation and would have implied a value for pi of 3.2, not 3. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Thanks for the link, that's interesting. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list