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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by m463 on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:00PM (#43441622)
With things like this I think of the bill that tried to change the value of pi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by pbhjpbhj on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:34AM (#43446477)
It seems to me the bill tried to charge royalties on maths and that a result would have been state sanctioned calculations would contradict the value of pi.

The Wikipedia article notes that the redefining of pi was specifically not an aim of the bill, pi not being mentioned in it.

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