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Pi Day Extraordinaire
First time accepted submitter DrTJ writes Today is Pi day. This year is a bit more extraordinary as it is 3/14/15 (in American date format). To celebrate, USA Today has posted a number of videos of kids reciting Pi, one of them to 8,784 digits. The Washington Post highlights the story of a couple who decided to make it their special day. "Donahue, 33, a Legal Aid attorney, fell for Karmel’s geeky side as soon as they met. On a beach vacation with her friends in 2012, a psychic told her, 'You are about to meet your soulmate.' Three days later, she walked into Kostume Karaoke night at Solly’s Tavern along the U Street corridor and saw a man onstage croaking out the Backstreet Boys’s 'I Want It That Way.' By the end of the night, he would be serenading her with Cake’s 'The Distance' — the song the DJ will play when they cut the pie."
Total failure on samzenpus part to post this at 9:26
What the f*** is that post.
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I find this one particular irrational.
"a psychic told her, 'You are about to meet your soulmate.'"
How... irrational.
Wait, why are they getting hitched on Pi da... oohhh. I get it now.
For this reason, I found it a little dumb to consider this the "Pi day" : https://thebehaviorallab.files...
For me (french), you could say that Pi day is April 31, 2015 (31/4/15).
Elok
Pi is wrong.
True mathematics nerds will celebrate on June 28, 2031
And White Day. Could we roll them all up into a festival of the mind?
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Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
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In Canada, it is the Steak and ... more... day. :)
That would be really cool if April had 31 days.
Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
Omg yes you're completly right. Silly mistake and it mean it would be January 3, 2041 (3/1/41) instead. Oh well..
Elok
So much. It's just a naturally occurring number, not even particularly special. It doesn't commemorate anything. It's the exact same thing as all of the stoners going "OMG! It's 4:20 LOL!"
Today is 2015-03-14. Using any other time format is stupid and confusing. I really hate having to decode weird American standards.
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Nope, not even for the English, as with the rest of the World they use dd/mm/yy it's only US Americans that use mm/dd/yy
I don't think that shoehorning decimal digits in a calendar makes sense, irrespective of the notation. Fraction 0.14159265 of the year falls on February 21 at 16:21:06.
It's not. It's 14/3/2015 in the sane world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmRGR45azo
Maybe for the English, but what about the world?
For me (french), you could say that Pi day is April 31, 2015 (31/4/15).
Why for the English? We write the date in the same way: dd/mm[/yy]. It makes sense for fans of ISO 8601 and the Japanses who use big endian [yy/]mm/dd and of course the Americans who use the nonsensical middle-endian format mm/dd[/yy].
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Who cares.
On 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 it was pi second (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937511 off the top of my head) and I missed it. Oh well, at least tomorrow is the Ides of March. Beware.
alpha% date --date='@1426325213.589793238' -u '+%_m.%d%y%_H%M%S%N'
3.1415 92653589793238
alpha%
We Americans write it that way because that's the way we say it.
Compare:
"Today is March fourteenth."
"Today is the fourteenth of March."
Four words are more efficient that six words, and it just sounds more natural in speech.
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but I am not sure if he still reads slashdot
it just sounds more natural in speech.
It absolutely does not.
Good try, but Pi is 3.1416, not 3.1415.
I haven't seen the YY notation since 1999. I don't know the rest of the world.
"Today is Fourteen March."
Even fewer letters!
> I don't think that shoehorning decimal digits in a calendar makes sense, irrespective of the notation.
You misspelled "regardless." :)
... is the last four digits of pi.
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Really, what, the fuck? Piss off cunt.
People mainly use yyyy/mm/dd because sorting by name will also put entries in date order.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
...for the rest of the world that counts dates logically
Nah, they simply chose to use a perfectly cromulent alternative.
We Americans write it that way because that's the way we say it. Compare: "Today is March fourteenth." "Today is the fourteenth of March." Four words are more efficient that six words, and it just sounds more natural in speech.
Real life example:
P.S. The USA is not the world, and time might be a concept but...
...for the rest of the world that counts dates logically
Came here to say this but you beat me to it. So I'll just add that if we're going to use the American system of dating, (and not add in the hours, minutes, and seconds), then Pi Day is NEXT year. Pi rounded to four decimal places is 3.1416.
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The 22nd of July works for the rest of the word. 22/7 is actually very slightly more accurate than 3.14.
Logically would be 2015/3/14. Or rather, that is big endian & the other way little endian. I suppose 3/14/2015 is, then, American endian...
We Americans write it that way because that's the way we say it.
Except that you don't always! You use the American date format most of the time except when referring to "the fourth of July" then, or all the times, you always use the English format.
I was waiting for some dumbass to make this comment. Here are two ways why our way is superior to yours.
1. Try to throw these in a spreadsheet or as the beginning of a directory or filename, then order them by month then day (so you can order the year logically by the next biggest unit -- the month). Yeah, didn't think so. Very inefficient.
2. When you say "the 14th of March" instead of "March 14th" you are waisting two valuable syllables that you'll never get back. Totally and utterly inefficient!
Logical would be military date format - yyyy/mm/dd. When my European co-developer asked me for a preferred date format for commenting changes, that is the format I chose. THAT is the only format properly sortable (other than variations in separators).
The most logical format for dates is the standard (ISO 8601) format: Most significant numbers first, so it sorts nicely. Using other formats is like using your feet to measure lengths. To get anything pi-like though, we need to remove trailing zeroes: 2015-3-14 1:59:26.5358979...
To be fair, they're not using their own feet. They're using the average left foot of a random selection of 16 men coming out of a church in the 16th century.
And I just learned that the ancient Greek foot had 16 digits... where did those extra eleven toes go?
...for the rest of the world that counts dates logically
America will always be the greatest nation on earth, so lets just use American date formal, shall we?
So 31 April?
Are you serious? Sixty seconds, sixty minutes, twenty four hours, three hundred sixty five/three hundred sixty six days and you try to bring forth a logic argument? Fuck off the America bashing and go back to school.
When you say "the 14th of March" instead of "March 14th" you are speaking proper English. Totally and utterly not fucking retarded!
FTFY
...but it goes further, at 9:26am
yyyy/mm/dd has the advantage that it sorts correctly. dd/mm doesn't, especially if you drop leading zeros.
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They were both geeks, picked Pi Day as a day to get married. (I doubt they were the ones mentioned in the article, but I don't know them.)
Friends of mine had a Pi Day brunch yesterday. It didn't start at 9:26am, because that was just way too early, so they decided to end it at 9:26pm if anybody was still there. We reset one of the clocks to Eastern time so we could do 9:26pm EDT, cheer, etc.
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The Roman calendar was really a hopeless mess of leftover lunarcy. Some months the Ides are the 15th, most the 13th, kalends were the first, and you counted dates forward to the next ides, kalends, or nones.
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Loose translation: "Stuff your logic. Our way is the American way, so of COURSE it's better." The rest of the world declines to agree your spurious logic. You're outvoted, son.
('cos it's American Pi...)
It's all very well to talk about "waiting for some dumbass". But it's probably fair to say that the most of the non-US /. community was waiting with resignation for the inevitable dumbass American to display their jingoistic ignorance of the practices (and probably existence) of the rest of the world, by make a post about "Pi day" in the first place...