Being from Indiana, let me offer this bit of trivia.  When I was in grade
school we went on a field trip to the capitol building.  The tour guide told
us that, according to Indiana state law, whenever a vote is conducted using
the electronic button voting thingy, that whatever is voted upon could
become a law, regardless of how silly it may be.  Also, only legislators can
conduct a vote (meaning only legislators can push the buttons).  So when
they test for an affirmation, whatever was "voted" on becomes law.
Consequently, there are a lot of strange laws in Indiana.

Michael Brown
Instant Net Solutions
www.KillerPCs.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ammerman" <RAMMERMAN@PRODIGY.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: [OT]: ENOUGH! (was: "Re: [OT]: Brain Burp Rounding??")


> Well, we all pick on the Indiana legislature for this, but I'm pretty sure
> the whole thing was a spoof even when it happened. Here is an excerpt from
> the bill:
>
> <QUOTE>
>
> Section -3- In further proof of the value of the author's proposed
> contribution to education and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana,
is
> the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of
the
> cube and quadrature of the circle having been already accepted as
> contributions to science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading
> exponent of mathematical thought in this country. And be it remembered
that
> these noted problems had been long since given up by scientific bodies as
> insolvable mysteries and above man's ability to comprehend.
>
> </QUOTE>
>
> Given that, IIRC, it has been _proven_ that trisection of an angle is
> impossible (and I think the other items listed also); it seems to me that
> this whole thing was done tongue-in-cheek.
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
> (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
> software)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spehro Pefhany" <speff@INTERLOG.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT]: ENOUGH! (was: "Re: [OT]: Brain Burp Rounding??")
>
>
> > At 07:26 AM 6/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Anyone ever heard this one?
> > >
> > >http://www.snopes2.com/religion/pi.htm
> > >NOTE:This legend is FALSE!!!!!
> >
> > But this one is not: (pi = 3.2)
> >
> > http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/indiana_pi_bill.html
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
>
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