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From ABC News
March 14 -- or, if you'd prefer, 3.14 -- is the informal holiday celebrating everyone's favorite irrational number, pi.
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, pi is a number that famously extends forever without repeating, and has scored an elite spot in pop culture's superficial appreciation of mathematics.
All that could have been different, however, if the efforts of one Edward J. Goodwin of Indiana had succeeded -- or if a mathematics professor hadn't stopped him.
A rural physician in the late 19th Century, Goodwin dabbled in mathematics and came to believe he had solved several of the world's most vexing mathematical problems.
COMMENT:-
Just goes to show that legislators not actually reading the legislation they vote on and/or not understanding it if the do read it and/or being too dumb to understand it if someone who has actually read it tries to explain it to them is nothing new.
Happy Pi Day. Indiana once tried to define pi as 3.2. The bill almost passed.
March 14 -- or, if you'd prefer, 3.14 -- is the informal holiday celebrating everyone's favorite irrational number, pi.
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, pi is a number that famously extends forever without repeating, and has scored an elite spot in pop culture's superficial appreciation of mathematics.
All that could have been different, however, if the efforts of one Edward J. Goodwin of Indiana had succeeded -- or if a mathematics professor hadn't stopped him.
A rural physician in the late 19th Century, Goodwin dabbled in mathematics and came to believe he had solved several of the world's most vexing mathematical problems.
COMMENT:-
Just goes to show that legislators not actually reading the legislation they vote on and/or not understanding it if the do read it and/or being too dumb to understand it if someone who has actually read it tries to explain it to them is nothing new.
