#BEGENNER HELP" again!
24-Oct-95 17:06:10
Sb: #48615-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Fm: Peter Wade 100265,2740
To: Jim Butterfield 73624,14
> Then again, I'm told that on one occasion in the 19th century, a state
> legislature passed a law that in that state, the value of pi would be
> taken as 3. Seems they wanted to simplify things .. 🙂
I read about this years ago in one of Isaac Asimov's essays. He said that
someone had found a passage in the bible where they described something round
in a temple and he worked out pi from that.
Peter Wade
Autopiloting from London, England