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Pi Day (mander.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 110 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

But I don’t wanna bake in late July

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

~~well yeah, there's no 14th month~~

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Tell me you are from ~~the US~~ North America without telling me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

They could be from Canada too. We're in that fun zone of being mostly Oxford/metric/DMY, but due to proximity and history we still use a lot of Webster/imperial/MDY. My dad is from the past so he speaks in Fahrenheit but calls it "English". Send help.

However, saying "July 23rd" feels more natural and efficient to me than "The 23rd of July". That translates to me writing 07/23 over 23/07. To each their own though, I'm not gonna harsh any mellows over date formatting.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

... or to within π meters?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I chuckled

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You're forgetting tau day, June 28th. That's 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

for the greater good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

3 is even better!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

looks at today's date

...darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We should have approximately 3 pi days

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR

--ISO-8601 GANG

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

MM-DD-YY will make you cry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"In the year 3141..."

[–] highDPSdaddy 4 points 8 months ago

Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

But putting the day before the month is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.

Also https://m.xkcd.com/1179/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Personally I can get behind YMD and DMY (while sticking to ISO would be preferrable for obvious reasons), but what on earth possessed people to come up with MDY?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is this some worldly date format that I'm too American to understand?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But then we'd have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

then write the year before the month before the day 😈

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Always do

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Not in America it ain't. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

unless you are using ISO 8601 then i think u should...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I think America is outnumbered on that matter.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Year/Month/Day is the way.

Month/Day/Year you should fear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Remind me again what your national day is called?

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[–] Semjaza 4 points 8 months ago

Guess ya'll just have to adapt to a better system.

Give up on imperial while you're at it too, you'll be happier in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

What's the 14th month?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Where's the love for tau day

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