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this is hilarious ..and I'm not even a mathy-sciency type of guy:
Feb. 5, 1897: Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi
1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (orπ). Only the intervention of a Purdue University mathematician who happens to be visiting the legislature prevents the bill from becoming law, saving the most acute political embarrassment.
House 246 was sent on to the state Senate and was on the verge of passage when everyone's bacon was serendipitously saved by C.A. Waldo, a Purdue mathematics professor who happened to be in the Statehouse on another matter. Shown the bill and offered an introduction to the genius whose theory it was, Waldo declined, saying he already knew enough crazy people.
Waldo stuck around long enough to educate the senators, and the bill eventually went away.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/dayintech_0205