[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report

[Nix]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Tethys mused:
> 
> John Southern writes:
> 
>>Did Intel not try to make 2+2 not equal to 4?
> 
> Yes, and an Arizona school board declared Pi to be approximately 4
> in order to simplify the maths. Neither are right, though...

I think it was Indiana, and it was the state legislature being conned by
a crackpot. He had more, um, interesting ideas in that bill, too; that
the `discovery' could be used *without a royalty* if it got into the
statute books, and much else.

Hm, yes: <http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/pi_indiana.html>.

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