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Ike
2/6/2008, 02:02 PM
The State of Indiana very nearly legislated the value of π to be 3.2

Perhaps they just wanted to force the world to be a bit more rational.


http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/dayintech_0205

Howzit
2/6/2008, 02:15 PM
I thought you were going to say "OUinFla was born."

When IS his birthday?!?!?!?

OKLA21FAN
2/6/2008, 02:17 PM
The State of Indiana very nearly legislated the value of π to be 3.2



and then promptly sold that value to beer distributors in Oklahoma!

SoonerStormchaser
2/6/2008, 04:13 PM
I thought you were going to say "SSC's wife was born."



Fixed.

olevetonahill
2/6/2008, 04:43 PM
Fixed.
Tell her I said happy Birfday , If she can hear ya .

Whet
2/6/2008, 05:09 PM
Pie are round, not square!
Cobbler are square!

Widescreen
2/6/2008, 05:20 PM
I thought you were going to say "OUinFla was born."

When IS his birthday?!?!?!?
AFAIK, he wasn't 'born' in the usual sense.