From COLIN SINGLETON
The 1991 edition of the Guinness Book of Records states: ‘In 1897 the
General Assembly of Indiana enacted in House Bill No 246 that pi was de
jure 4.’ I seem to recall that earlier editions of the book gave the value
as 3. I don’t know what intelligence made them change their entry.
The same entry records that pi was calculated, in 1989, not to a billion
but to 1 011 196 691 decimal places. Guinness readers are spared the full
print out.
Colin Singleton Sheffield
