Wednesday Is Pi Day

mrbluze points us to an AP writeup on the upcoming Pi Day — 3-14 (which some will observe at 1:59 pm). The article notes: "[T]he world record [for reciting the number Pi] belongs to Chao Lu, a Chinese chemistry student, who rattled off 67,890 digits over 24 hours in 2005. It took 26 video tapes to submit to Guinness," and mentions in passing a Japanese mental health counselor who last fall recited 100,000 digits, but did not choose to submit proof to the record book.

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[HetMes]

Following the discussion about the date/time format, in continental Europe we proud ourselves in experiencing 13-3-7, or 1337...

Re:I live in Europe

[pryonic]

I've never understood the logic behind the American way of writing dates. I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems illogical to me.

Here at my office we use both the European and International numerican dates forms, depending on the sitation:

European: DD/MM/YYYY
International: YYYY/MM/DD

As you can the units of time (days, months, years) ascend or descend in order e.g. in the European format you go from the smallest unit (days) through the midsized (months) up to the largest (years). In the International format the same descends from largest first.

But with the American format you start with the month, then go to the smallest, then to the largest. It just seems totally illogical to me, anyone know why it's done that way?