It has been reported that the value of Pi will be changed from 3.14 to 3.00. The spokesperson at the European Union's Committee on Science and Technology, Professor Polo Flair, said that the change will take effect on 1 June 2008. According to the report, the change was necessary as it would help to simplify many complicated and long-winded scientific calculations and equations. It was also designed to improve the examination results of many millions students all over the world. More than 30% of students believed that their poor performance in their mathematic and physics examinations was caused by the value of Pi. Professor Flair also said that the committee is looking at other constants, to see if their values should be simplified.
Meanwhile, Casio, one of the world's leading producers of scientific calculators has released a software which updates scientific calculators by disabling the Pi key. The spokeswoman at Casio said that the software can be used for other makers as well.
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