Sounding like global warming.

House Bill 246, proposed as “an act introducing a new mathematical truth,” went through three reads before being passed unanimously by the House, presumably to avoid having to endure a fourth.

Although it comes down to us as the “pi bill,” pi itself is never mentioned in Record’s bill, which was, in fact, intended to confirm Goodwin’s formula for squaring the circle. The value 3.2 for pi was a prerequisite for making that formula plausible.

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