OFF: Silly laws in the USA

[Andrew A. Apold]

At 12:58 PM 1/16/97 GMT, M Holmes wrote:
>Ed Gallagher writes:
>
>> I remember hearing that it's illegal to cary an ice cream cone in your
>> pocket in Texas.
>>
>> For quite some time (maybe still) it was (or is) illegal to buy baby
>> food, diapers and lots of other stuff on Sundays in South Carolina. Part
>> of a bunch of laws that were refered to as "Blue Laws".
>
>Then there's the infamous law in one County where Pi was declaed to be 3
>because of a description in the Bible which indicated that this might be
>its "True" value.

That's nothing.  The state legislature of Indiana (not just a county, the whole
damn state) passed a law declaring the value of Pi to be "4".  Isaac Asimov
listed this in an article where he described the greatest aproximations of
Pi in the pre-computer era.


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