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    Pi in the Sky

    Feb 25, 2020 2 minutes
    BY SARAH BARR

    IT WAS KIND of like trying to legislate the Earth into being flat, or decreeing the sky was no longer blue. But in 1897, Indiana came perilously close to legally changing the mathematical value of pi.

    Edward J. Goodwin was a Hoosier physician who

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