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Almanac: Indiana’s Pi Bill

February 5, 1897 was the day the Indiana House of Representatives endorsed the idea of a small town doctor Edwin Johnston Goodwin who came up with a method of "squaring a circle" with the incorrect value for the mathematical constant, pi.


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