Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"
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Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159...
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth's circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.
... or to within π meters?
I chuckled
The engineer in me wants to tell you round it up to 3.5 just to be safe. Maybe even 4 might be better...........
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Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
You're forgetting tau day, June 28th. That's 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
for the greater good
3 is even better!
2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
and four pies
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
--ISO-8601 GANG
MM-DD-YY will make you cry
"In the year 3141..."
Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️
That's nice and helps remember it's 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.
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But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...
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Is this some worldly date format that I'm too American to understand?
more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
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I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it's the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I suspect she will NOT allow the change...........
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It's close, but the math checks out.
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