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The best April Fools' Day hoaxes of all time!
Alabama legislates mathematics

In 1998 an influential American science newsletter carried the story that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Scientists were not happy.

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