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17. Fortunately, that story wasn't real. It was satire.

Reply to Duppers (Reply #12)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 01:31 AM

Jan 2015

A satiric article by Ian Squires at the Huffington Post claims that Republican congresswoman Martha Roby is sponsoring a bill, allegedly named HR 205: The Geometric Simplification Act, that would legally define pi as 3 (instead of 3.14159…), to "make math easier for our children." Of course "The Onion"-esque article is fake, but it almost hits too close to home. Livescience.com

Besides, HR 205 was from 2012, not 2011, when that Huffpost article was written.

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