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snopes.com • Mon 2009 Mar 9, 11:40pm

Claim: Responding to pressure from religious groups, Alabama's state legislature redefined the value of pi from 3.14159 to 3 in order to bring it in line with Biblical precepts. Status: False.

cs.uwaterloo.ca • Mon 2009 Mar 9, 11:39pm

The bill House Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897, reportedly set the value of pi to an incorrect rational approximation.

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