NP Alabama Pi

[David Morris]

I can neither confirm nor deny, but this sounds like typical internet 
satire-news.  Funny, and half-beleivable, but phoney.

DM

>From: "Vaska Tumir" Governor Fob James says he will sign it into law on 
>Wednesday.
>
>The law took the state's engineering community by surprise. "It would
>have been nice if they had consulted with someone who actually uses pi,"
SNIP
>Lawson called into question the usefulness of any number that cannot
>be calculated exactly, and suggested that never knowing the exact
>answer could harm students' self-esteem.  "We need to return to some
>absolutes in our society," he said, "the Bible does not say that the
>font was thirty-something cubits.  Plain reading says thirty cubits.
>Period."
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