How about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” an 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?
Pi Day
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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death_to_carrots@feddit.org 3 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”
FryHyde@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Imagine acting superior about a date format.
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
lmaydev@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe
superkret@feddit.org 3 months ago
Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159…
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earths circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
… or to within π meters?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 months ago
I chuckled
AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
powerofm@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
We should have approximately 3 pi days
coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I propose that during a 113 day period we have exactly 355 pi days. That would be an avrage of 3,14159 pi days per year
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re forgetting tau day, June 28th. That’s 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
for the greater good
niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 months ago
2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 3 months ago
looks at today’s date
…darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(
AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
3 is even better!
fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
and four pies
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.
Draegur@lemm.ee 3 months ago
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
^(ISO-8601 GANG)
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
MM-DD-YY will make you cry
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 months ago
“In the year 3141…”
highDPSdaddy@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Michal@programming.dev 3 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.
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Some very confused Americans trying to remember the names of the 13th - 22nd months.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
- Undecimber
- Duodecimber
- Tredecimber
- Quattordecimber
- Quindecimber
- Sedecimber
- Septendecimber
- Duodevigintiber
- Undevigintiber
- Vigintiber
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
But Pi Day doesn’t end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec…
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This was waaay too low
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 months ago
Half the fucking world would beg to differ
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.
Also m.xkcd.com/1179/
coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn’t use widely, so even they don’t use this standard
dch82@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What are you even talking about?
Most countries use a 24hr clock
Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.
The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.
I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 months ago
Shame there isn’t a 31st of April then
GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 3 months ago
I don’t mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is this some European date format that I’m too American to understand?
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 3 months ago
more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 months ago
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What an oddly specific trigger. I’m sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s recent enough that it still haunts the people of the country. It’s also not an every day occurrence like in America.
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
From the wiki:
2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TIL that not only is it legal to own guns in Norway, apparently you guys have a fairly high percentage of gun ownership.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Absolutely, but acquiring a weapon legally is a process involving the police and requires a sensible intent (like hunting, sports or defense against polar bears) and an approved safe storage. While there are a lot of weapons in Norway, it’s very heavily regulated.
With that said, the terror in Norway was performed with a firearm which was obtained legally with approval from the police, so the system is far from perfect.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 months ago
What’s the 14th month?
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not in America it ain’t. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
unless you are using ISO 8601 then i think u should…
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Invalid argument as the ISO standard must include years. Not including years is just garbage
Michal@programming.dev 3 months ago
I think America is outnumbered on that matter.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Year/Month/Day is the way.
Month/Day/Year you should fear.
nyctre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Remind me again what your national day is called?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
July 4th, or the 4th OF July. No one calls it 4 July.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Guess ya’ll just have to adapt to a better system.
Give up on imperial while you’re at it too, you’ll be happier in the long run.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But then we’d have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Going by the numbers, using DD/MM is the civilised way and MM/DD the archaic one.
Toes@ani.social 3 months ago
Where’s love your tau day
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I was looking for you. Or someone like you. Or someone other than you.
I need a Tau advocate and you got the job.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Jokes on you, I’m too dumb to get it!
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s close, but the math checks out.
callyral@pawb.social 3 months ago
Yeah, that makes me want to celebrate my birthday more
joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You’d confuse the Americans.
SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This… this is why we have no friends, brain:)
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn’t make any sense for a πday
GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 3 months ago
well yeah, there’s no 14th monthpaschko_mato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Tell me you are from the US without telling me
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But I don’t wanna bake in late July
spizzat2@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.