Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.
System works as designed.
Now lets get pi equal to 3.2 like God and Indiana intended.
never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.
Ah, the good (not really, but bear with me) old days where even the crazies would listen to experts…
Also, this is brilliant:
the Speaker accepted another member’s recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could “find a deserved grave”