From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 10:25:58 MDT
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"Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin" <warrl@blarg.net> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 Wrote:
>Are you sure about this? [The Pi stuff]
Most of the information I got from Petr Beckmann's book "A History Of Pi",
the rest I got from an old Scientific American Column by Martin Gardner.
After passing the Indiana house of representatives unanimously, the state
senate killed the bill by voting on Feb 12 1897 to send it to the Committee
on Swamps (a symbolic place I think) for future consideration. Fortunately
the future never happened. The Hero of the story is C A Waldo, a
mathematician at Purdue who heard about this crazy bill and was astounded
that it passed the House, he waged a frantic campaign to educate the senators
and he was successful, but just barely.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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