Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the inevitable-number-patterns dept.
I just wanted take a break to wish everyone a Happy Pi Day. It's 3/14, so I hope you are all enjoying your day off, and remember not to bother checking your mailbox.
belt tightening in the USA
by
Anonymous Coward
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In most states, there are no longer separate holidays for pi and e but rather a combined "Transcendentals Day".
"Come on down, our prices for this one day event are just irrational".
Re:Is it Twelvember yet?
by
hduff
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· Score: 4, Funny
For fuck's sake, can we all please stop insisting that a particular arbitrary way to represent dates is better? It's pretty asinine how this gets brought up so much.
Sure. We can argue over which way the toilet paper goes or 'vi vs. emacs' or any number of pointless, non-winnable arguments that fuel the growth of civilisation.
Your choice.
-- "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
And here's a festive image I created for the occasion
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5665/28362805.jpg
The cake is a pi.
In most states, there are no longer separate holidays for pi and e but rather a combined "Transcendentals Day".
"Come on down, our prices for this one day event are just irrational".
For fuck's sake, can we all please stop insisting that a particular arbitrary way to represent dates is better? It's pretty asinine how this gets brought up so much.
Sure. We can argue over which way the toilet paper goes or 'vi vs. emacs' or any number of pointless, non-winnable arguments that fuel the growth of civilisation.
Your choice.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
You know, a pizza with a height of a and a radius of z has a volume of pi*z*z*a.
you're on the wrong forum, this is slashdot.
for slashdotters they have black day
My date format is DD/MM/YYYY, you insensitive clod !