[vonunov]

Now I'm just burning to know how the debate about which way to round it went down

[Zak]

It was a scheme to sell math textbooks involving a purported method for squaring the circle which depended on that incorrect value of pi. Squaring the circle had already been proven impossible, but that didn't stop them from trying.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/05/indianas-...