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Pi Day (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday

[–] idiomaddict 7 points 4 months ago

But I don’t wanna bake in late July

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We should have approximately 3 pi days

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[–] TexasDrunk 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You're forgetting tau day, June 28th. That's 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.

[–] niktemadur 4 points 4 months ago

2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

looks at today's date

...darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

3 is even better!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

for the greater good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

and four pies

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159...
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth's circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... or to within π meters?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I chuckled

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR

--ISO-8601 GANG

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

MM-DD-YY will make you cry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

"In the year 3141..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's nice and helps remember it's 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some very confused Americans trying to remember the names of the 13th - 22nd months.

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[–] Ibaudia 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is this some worldly date format that I'm too American to understand?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it's the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.

I suspect she will NOT allow the change...........

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)