The bill spends inordinate verbiage denigrating other works, and lauding its own financial generosity (agreeing to not charge for teaching the technique if taug

The bill spends inordinate verbiage denigrating other works, and lauding its own financial generosity (agreeing to not charge for teaching the technique if taught in place of alternatives, none of which work anyway). Substantive content of the bill, near as I can tell: [A] circular area is to the square on a line equal to the quadrant of the circumference, as the area of an equilateral rectangle is to the square on one side. ... By taking the quadrant of the circle's circumference for the linear unit, we fulfill the requirements of both quadrature and rectification of the circle's circumference. Furthermore, it has revealed the ratio of the chord and arc of ninety degrees, which is as seven to eight, and also the ratio of the diagonal and one side of a square which is as ten to seven, disclosing the fourth important fact, that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four[ (i.e.: pi = 3.2).]