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To: VadeRetro
... there are more idiots in Indiana than I thought.

There are. Indiana is the state that once tried to change the definition of pi.
A Bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth ....

461 posted on 11/07/2005 5:42:11 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Reality is a harsh mistress. No rationality, no mercy)
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To: PatrickHenry
Well, if Indiana tries what Havoc says they're trying, we won't run out of legal giggle material and perjurious creationist testimony for the next year at least.
464 posted on 11/07/2005 5:45:20 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Evidently they are not restricted to Indiana.

Section 3 
In further proof of the value of the author's proposed contribution to education and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana, is the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle having been already accepted as contributions to science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading exponent of mathematical thought in this country.

Or this is a hoax.

467 posted on 11/07/2005 5:49:43 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: PatrickHenry

Of course, the Indiana legislature would have been better off demanding that all measurements be done in cubits (in which case, given the variability of
human forearm lengths, the approximation of pi by 3 is perfectly respectable).


539 posted on 11/07/2005 9:00:31 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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