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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2586301, member: 19463&quot;]Did you notice that the label on the upper left of the photo describes the larger coin as belonging to Maximinus I, 235 AD, but the linked texts corrected that to Maximinus II.&nbsp; I left Indiana in 1968 when I was graduated from Wabash College. In 1897, as now, Indiana has a wide range of intellects.&nbsp; Whatever the state, intellectual ability is not a prerequisite for office.&nbsp; More:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3" rel="nofollow">http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More troubling to me was a very few years ago in Virginia, my elementary school age grandson and several of his classmates were marked wrong on a state test because they failed to follow the instructions to take pi as 3.14.&nbsp; The ones that entered 3.14 into their calculators got the right answer according to the test makers but those who pushed the pi button on the calculator (giving a number of additional digits) missed that question.&nbsp; Machines could not grade answers that varied by a difference in the programming of calculators but making everyone use the same 3.14 would allow everyone to get the same answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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