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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 102 points 11 months ago

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

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

But I don’t wanna bake in late July

[-] spizzat2@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 20 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago

... or to within π meters?

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 8 points 11 months ago
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[-] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 52 points 11 months ago

Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

3 is even better!

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

for the greater good

[-] GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

looks at today's date

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

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[-] powerofm@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

We should have approximately 3 pi days

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

--ISO-8601 GANG

[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago

MM-DD-YY will make you cry

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

"In the year 3141..."

[-] highDPSdaddy@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[-] Michal@programming.dev 26 points 11 months ago

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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[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃

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[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

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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[-] Toes@ani.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Where's the love for tau day

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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

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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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

It's close, but the math checks out.

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