Alabama Changing The Value of Pi

I’m one day late on this, but I was reading the top 10 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all time yesterday and #7 was a good one.  See below:

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi

The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.

Comments

  1. kim says:

    Ok I like Rocky too but would it truly be enough to persuade someone to vote for them by comparing yourself to him?

  2. Forester says:

    Not at all Kim. It was not a smart comment for her to make. Just like saying she was under fire in Bosnia, or near there. She should have never brought it up because Rocky could kill her with one punch :)

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