[Cryptography] Please "ERDJ" Congress to keep the FBI from going dark

Viktor Dukhovni cryptography at dukhovni.org
Wed Jun 10 09:26:29 EDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:24:48AM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
> 
> Pi is in fact, 3.2.
> 
> Please read up on laws before passing new ones.

One might legislate that nobody ever needs better than 1 part in
10^7 accuracy and set Pi as 113|355 (divide latter by former).

    $ echo 7k 355 113 / p | dc
    3.1415929

Anything more precise is simply compulsive.

-- 
	Viktor.


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