Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is the irrational number celebrated each year on March 14. However, the confused lawmakers who listened to Goodwin nearly turned Indiana into a source of mockery for all time.
Undeterred, Goodwin took his idea four years later to the Indiana Statehouse where he met his representative, Taylor I. Record, and offered to give the state his solution so it could be used in the state's textbooks for free with other states paying a royalty for its use. However, the committee's chairman, Rep. Samuel Edgar Nicholson, recommended the bill be forwarded to the Committee on Education and"the chamber concurred," according to the"Journal of Proceedings of the House, 1897," which Hallerburg cited.
"The immediate effect of this change will be to give all circles when they enter Indiana either greater circumferences or less diameters," the Tribune wrote."An Illinois circle or a circle originating in Ohio will find its proportions modified as soon as it lands on Indiana soil. It will find itself under the sway of a modified Pi.
However, the next day, Sen. Harry S. New recommended the bill for passage and Sen. Virgil P. Bozeman, a member of the temperance committee, called the bill for a second reading.
Indiana. Always ahead of its time. 😂
That’s Indiana for ya… how stupid
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