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In 1897, Indiana tried to regulate Pi.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoActually his "discoveries" didn't just claim that pi was 3.2, it claimed (sometimes implicitly) several values. The wikipedia article is more informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill Google finds many more references of varying detail. Most people know the approximation 22/7, and many people actually think this is the exact value. A much better approximation is 355/113, unreasonably good, as evidenced by the unusually large integer in the continued fraction expansion of pi.