Never said it was. And "Yeee-ha!" is Texas; Indiana is "Hooo-sier!"
To set the record straight, the bill did not say "pi is equal to three" or
anything so straight-forward, but made a number of mathematical statements,
which had the effect of changing the value of pi in different ways. One of
these was, "The ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths
to four," which would make pi = 3.2.
The actual purpose of the bill was accept the offer of a certain
mathematical crank to use his copyrighted theories for free, while anybody
else would have to pay royalties. (Sound like anyone we know?) It passed
the Assembly unanimously; then someone actually read the bill, and was
killed in the Senate without being voted on.
This is the state where I was taught about the Creation in a religion class
in a public elementary school in the 1970s. This was just a few miles from
where Dan Quayle was "disadvantaged" by a public school education. Y'know,
I think he was right!
--
John Hynes
www.decimaltime.org
2006 Jan. 27.143 UT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:40 PM
Subject: [USMA:35875] RE: NEW Yard (yd') or Metre New (m') RE: Re: decimal
time
Just because a bunch of uneducated but elected yahoos do something like
that
doesn't make it so. "Yeee-ha!" is not a viable governing strategy.
Carleton
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of John Hynes
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 00:13
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:35861] RE: NEW Yard (yd') or Metre New (m') RE: Re: decimal
time
It was the Bible that suggest that pi is 3. The Indiana Assembly passed a
bill which gave the value as 3.2. Another part of the bill gave the value
as 4!
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John Hynes
www.decimaltime.org
2006 Jan. 26.217 UT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Saxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Hynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [USMA:35855] RE: NEW Yard (yd') or Metre New (m') RE: Re:
decimal time
Yes, I heard something about that. Wasn't pi defined to be 3? However
our erstwhile correspondent lives in New Jersey so he can't use that
excuse.
John Hynes wrote:
You can in the state of Indiana! :-)
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John Hynes
www.decimaltime.org
2006 Jan. 26.136 UT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Saxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:49 PM
Subject: [USMA:35855] RE: NEW Yard (yd') or Metre New (m') RE: Re:
decimal time
You CANNOT arbitrarily declare the value of pi to be 100000/31831 no
matter how convenient you might think it would be. The mathematics
just
doesn't work like that. It is like saying the square root of 2 is
exactly 1.4.
On the same line, a radian is the angle subtended at the centre of a
circle by an arc equal to the radius. You can't redefine that to suit
your purposes either, any more than you can arbitrarily say that a
right
angle is a fifth of a full circle.
There is no controversy to discuss.
Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
Phillip Hall & friends:
I can't quite work this out. If we take the Earth radius as 6371 km,
and assume a perfect sphere, >I get 40030.1735920411 km (rounded to
10
dp) when I multiply 6371 by 2 * pi (using pi =
>3.1415926535 ... from windows calculator)
This small difference is due to the Pi value you use from computer;
and
I use MY rationalised value for Pi of ratio: 100000/31831 that FIXES
'Radian at 57*.2958 =57*17'44".88.
Thus, Earth circumference is 2*Pi*radius =2x100000/31831x6371
=40030.1592786906 (to 10th decimal) Km. I choose THIS value for Pi
since NO OTHER value for Pi defines *either Pi or Radian - eaxactly*.
This is a deviation of 0.01431335051535 (or 14.3133505 cm).
I have discussed Pi controversy at length, and my views are stored in
the archieves. The point is its TRUNCATION that evaluate ANY two
values
differently.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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