Government Math: Non-Budgetary Edition

We all know that the governments often ignore reality but they have also been known not only to oppose known mathematical facts, but also actively legislate against them, as illustrated by Indiana trying to change the value of pi to 3.2.

It starts with a Mr Edward Goodwin trying to find a square with the exact same area as a circle. Despite being proved impossible years before, Mr. Goodwin constructed a falsified proof, had it published (showing that journals, even then, were suspect in their selection), and then copyrighted it. While he wanted to extract royalties from everyone using his formula, he offered to let the state of Indiana use it for free (for educational purposes), but only if they officially recognize his impossible method as truth.

Read the rest of the story here. The best part is when it gets unanimously passed by the Indiana House.

What's more scary, the fact that 67 representatives thought they had the power to redefine mathematics, or the fact that they almost succeeded?