In 1897 a bill was introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives that would have changed Pi and math as we knew it. It passed.

Todays let's find out who was trying to get that bill passed and why Pi is still Pi.

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Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/happy-pi-day-indiana-define-pi-32-bill/story?id=61644614

https://www.math.purdue.edu/people/bio/egoins/Indiana%20Pi%20Bill.html

https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2020/03/the-time-they-tried-to-legislate-pi/

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.html

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/it-would-have-been-a-laughingstock-hoosier-lawmakers-nearly-passed-the-indiana-pi-bill-in-1897

http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ias/article/view/8180/8139

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30214/new-math-time-indiana-tried-change-pi-32

https://todayinsci.com/Events/Misc/PiBill.htm

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