http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_General_Assembly>, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle>, rather than to establish a certain value for π <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0>, although the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2. The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature. Хорошо что в наше время такого нет, по крайней мере в математике. Только петрики всякие...