Comment by mapontosevenths

5 hours ago

The great state of Indiana once declared that pi was equal to exactly 3.2. [0]

Should they also break all of their code by adhering to that falsehood because it was politically expedient?

Nah. Truth is a real thing, and I want to live in a world were facts are not dictated to us by failed gameshow hosts who happened to turn political in their retirement years.

[0] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.h...