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Re: Routing wars pending?


From: dogcow () piglet merit net (Tom 'moof' Spindler)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:04:33 -0500 (EST)

Actually, the (original) explanation is correct. The state was Indiana.

Read about it in Petr Beckmann's "History of Pi" if you're interested
about it. I believe it has the full story. 

It was a small community in Alabama that voted (for their town) to
allow PI to equal 3 for the purpose of calculating square footage
for property tax.

That's it.  No grand scheme to defraud Southern schoolkids, no legislation
of ip_v !=4, just something to make taxes simple.

They also passed a bill once to make PI 3 or some such, didn't they?

In the state where this happened it was passed by their congress but was
vetoed in their senate so it never became law.


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