Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.
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ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.
Aw yeah! UTC gang!
TIL XKCD has a mobile site
If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.
YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)
DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.
Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability
Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha
I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.
You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).
The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.
Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha
Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.
I think this joke has gone full circle.
Pi=4
they have taken us for absolute fools
We should just call it four, or pi? One two three pi
Loved the joke, but I'm distracted. There are cabinets below the white board and storage space above. What is done with the extra space behind the whiteboard? I'm picturing like storage or cubbies in the next classroom over or something?
The whiteboards are on sliders or hinges to access shelving behind.
It'd be wild if the staff can store stuff behind the whiteboards.
We celebrate tau day in this household
Heresy
I’m American, but observe on July 22nd.
so you're an engineer
Far from it, but I like that 22/7 is numerically closer.
Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations
The only real pi day was in 1592. Everything else is just temporal appropriation
This doesn't work with the DMY format and cannot be accepted.
Well DMY format is no fun, then!
Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!
Pie are round. Cornbread are square!
Jesse, we need to calculate.
Maths:
The version I like better for some reason: Pi day is just a fake holiday created by big math to sell more formulas.
You can never trust Big Number.
They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.
Pie was never meant to be commercialised!
(Also come on guys, please stop shortening it to 'pi'. We're not restricted by '90s SMS length any more!)
If you think this is bad, how about the fact that Americans only have one math!
The time has come to stop the greedy hoarding of maths by Europeans. Let's open up our hearts and donate another math or two to these poor unfortunate souls.
We tried coming up with some new math so that we'd have more than one, but it was met with significant pushback.
Lehrer explained it so poorly it put people off.
It was starting to change under Biden, but Trump put tariffs on importing math.
For a few brief years, there's was a men's alternative to Valentines day. "Steak & Blowjobs day" was held exactly one month later, on March 14.
I have never seen such a surge in love for mathematics since then. Women around the world who barely know what Pi represents were suddenly very aware that March 14 was Pi day.
Women around the world probably remember that pi is nowhere near 14,3.
I've been hoodwinked!
And all this time, I thought it was the cake that was a lie...
while sly PI stole my mind into infinite cries
of WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE 3.1415???!?!!
3.1416
It's mathmagic!
"One math, please!"
developed in a math lab
I guess I did it wrong, I drove out to a country diner and bought a slice of foot-high chocolate meringue pie.
Textbooks.