(Except in Wisconsin or wherever it was that passed that decreed it was 3 to make arithmetic easier)
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Sadly, the pi redefined as 3 story is an urban legend.
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In 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure (House Bill no. 246, introduced by Rep. Taylor I. Record) regarding the calculation of the area of a circle that assigned various values to pi other than 3.14. (The bill died in the state Senate.)
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- Oct 2011
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- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
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Today is more usually known as "Pi Approximation Day" I think, even though 22/7 is in fact a closer approximation to pi than 3.14 is.
Pi Day is out by 0.00159265358...
whereas Pi Approximation Day is only out by 0.0012644892...
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- Mar 2008
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- Fast falling out of love for football.
- WasPlain Hobnobs
Happy pi Day Everybody.
Kevchenko wrote: Today is more usually known as "Pi Approximation Day" think, even though 22/7 is in fact a closer approximation to pi than 3.14 is.
Pi Day is out by 0.00159265358...
whereas Pi Approximation Day is only out by 0.0012644892...
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