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Indianapolis Journal. “The Senators made bad puns about it, ridiculed it, and laughed over it.”
A Senator Hubbell said it was costing Indiana $250 a day to waste its time on such a frivolous matter and he moved an indefinite postponement of the bill. The motion was carried. The newspaper reported, “All the senators who spoke on the bill admitted that they were ignorant of the merits of the proposition. (In the end,) it was simply regarded as not being a subject for legislation.” Various current-day mathematicians, in analyzing House Bill No. 246, have come up with the following values for Indiana's pi: 3; 3.2; 4; and 9.2376.
Pi fans in Rappahannock County were comforted by this historical fiasco. They now feel 3.14159 is close enough for them. But you still occasionally see them wherever they serve coffee, drawing circles on the backs of paper place mats or on napkins. They are an intense group, but harmless. You can spot them by the dark rings under their eyes.
They also boast that pi has been carried to 51 billion places, which is a lot of decimal places. The pi people then think about Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who was worth 65 billion dollars last summer, which is a lot of dollars. The circles under their eyes grow a shade darker. This year, though, a new worry has appeared on the scene for Rappahannock’s pi people. Another group of locals wants its place in the sun. They are boosters of the Coriolus Effect and they plan
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