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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2603387" data-attributes="member: 16221">The bill didn't actually redefine pi.  It allowed public schools to teach a specific mathematical "proof" of a method to Square-the-Circle (now proven to be impossible) some guy came up with.  The bill in fact was to make it teachable without paying royalties.  None of the politicians had any idea of what it was saying at all.  But the end result was that pi would come out to 3.2 if the proof was accurate.  <a href="http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node45.html" target="_blank">http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node45.html</a>So it wasn't pi=3 or pi=3.2 that was passed, but rather, "We're allowed to teach that pi=3.2 without paying some dude royalty fees."  And yeah, it got squashed when a mathematician came in and told them all off for being idiots.</blockquote>