Happy Pi Day

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:18AM 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.

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Happy Pi Day Everyone... by Haedrian · 2011-03-14 02:21 · Score: 3, Funny

And here's a festive image I created for the occasion
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5665/28362805.jpg
And just as important. by barfcat · 2011-03-14 02:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd also like to wish everybody (and also remind them) a happy steak and BJ day. It's exactly one month after V-day which we all know is for the women. This holiday evens out the universe.
1. Re:And just as important. by ArsenneLupin · 2011-03-14 03:46 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  This "holiday" [steak & BJ day?], which does not exist on any calendar...seems sexist and homophobic.
  Why that? You haven't been very often to a gay bathhouse or to a park at night, have you?
  We gays like a good BJ as much (if not more...) than any other man!
Re:Tacoooo by Quiet_Desperation · 2011-03-14 02:23 · Score: 4, Funny

The cake is a pi.
Almost there... by nate+nice · 2011-03-14 02:24 · Score: 3, Insightful

Only 4 more years until 3/14/15. That's the big one and I expect math departments the world over to go overboard on the candy and soda that day.

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1. Re:Almost there... by Haedrian · 2011-03-14 02:26 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  We could easily extend that to
  3/14/15 9:26:53 am
  And have a real big bash.
interesting note: by circletimessquare · 2011-03-14 02:26 · Score: 4, Interesting

also albert einstein's birthday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
March 14, 1879

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1. Re:interesting note: by rubycodez · 2011-03-14 03:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  you're on the wrong forum, this is slashdot.
  
  for slashdotters they have black day
Only in America! by Gadget_Guy · 2011-03-14 02:27 · Score: 3, Interesting

It is only Pi Day if you use the date format of mm/dd. In countries that use dd/mm date format, it lands on 22/7. If you think about it, Pi Day makes more sense in that format.
My subject line says "Only in America", but in reality Basque Country, Hungary, Korea, and Mongolia use mm.dd which makes the more ideal 3.14
belt tightening in the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-14 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

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 bigstrat2003 · 2011-03-14 02:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

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.

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Re:Actually it is 14/3 by Eevee · 2011-03-14 02:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

According to ISO 8601, today is 2011-03-14.
Re:Americans... by Bake · 2011-03-14 02:40 · Score: 3, Informative

I wouldn't hold my breath for 31st of April.
Re:Is it Twelvember yet? by hduff · 2011-03-14 02:49 · 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.

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Re:Tacoooo by Sique · 2011-03-14 02:51 · Score: 5, Funny

You know, a pizza with a height of a and a radius of z has a volume of pi*z*z*a.

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Tau instead of Pi... Wait a few months by HizookRobotics · 2011-03-14 02:55 · Score: 5, Informative

I too was once an ardent pi supporter. However, I have seen the light... let us eliminate spurious factors of two everywhere and embrace a more reasonable transcendental number: tau
Ultimate Pi Moment by Chas · 2011-03-14 03:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

Waiting for 3/14/15 at 9:26 AM.
Just before it flips to 9:27 we'll have an ultimate Pi moment.

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Re:Is it Twelvember yet? by AntmanGX · 2011-03-14 03:14 · Score: 3, Insightful

"Which day?" without the month ends up making one scramble for context.
And here's me thinking that most people, when given a day, will assume that you mean either the current month, or the next if that day has already passed. Using your logic, you're telling us that somebody saying "Fancy going to the cinema on Saturday?" would only serve to confuse people as they would then wonder what week you're talking about.
I don't buy it.
Re:Is it Twelvember yet? by gfreeman · 2011-03-14 03:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

isn't the month often more relevant than the day of month when conveying information?
No. Seeing as we're right in the middle of the month it's a bit redundant to refer to tomorrow as "March 15th". Tomorrow is most easily communicated as "The 15th" (day of March).
If I were to say "The 15th ..." you'd have only 12 options, whereas "March ..." has 31 options. So I put it to you that the date is more important than the month.

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We should celebrate Tau day instead by ndogg · 2011-03-14 03:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

We should free ourselves of the tyranny of Pi, and celebrate Tau.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ

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