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Pi Day

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      well yeah, there’s no 14th month

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      • paschko_mato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tell me you are from the US without telling me

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But I don’t wanna bake in late July

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    • spizzat2@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”

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    • FryHyde@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine acting superior about a date format.

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      • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior

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    • lmaydev@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … or to within π meters?

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      • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I chuckled

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  • AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

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    • powerofm@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We should have approximately 3 pi days

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      • coffee_whatever@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        for the greater good

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      • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        looks at today’s date

        …darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(

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      • AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        3 is even better!

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      • fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and four pies

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

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  • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    ^(ISO-8601 GANG)

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    • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MM-DD-YY will make you cry

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “In the year 3141…”

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    • highDPSdaddy@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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  • Michal@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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  • Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
      1. Undecimber
      2. Duodecimber
      3. Tredecimber
      4. Quattordecimber
      5. Quindecimber
      6. Sedecimber
      7. Septendecimber
      8. Duodevigintiber
      9. Undevigintiber
      10. Vigintiber
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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This was waaay too low

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But putting the day before the month is wrong.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Half the fucking world would beg to differ

      …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_date_formats_by_country#…

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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/

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    • coffee_whatever@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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      • dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shame there isn’t a 31st of April then

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      • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P

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  • Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this some European date format that I’m too American to understand?

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    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      date-format-1024x660-1803367909

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  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What an oddly specific trigger. I’m sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the 14th month?

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not in America it ain’t. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.

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    • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      unless you are using ISO 8601 then i think u should…

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      • Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Invalid argument as the ISO standard must include years. Not including years is just garbage

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    • Michal@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think America is outnumbered on that matter.

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    • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Year/Month/Day is the way.

      Month/Day/Year you should fear.

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    • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remind me again what your national day is called?

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      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        July 4th, or the 4th OF July. No one calls it 4 July.

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But then we’d have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.

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    • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      then write the year before the month before the day 😈

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Always do

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Going by the numbers, using DD/MM is the civilised way and MM/DD the archaic one.

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s love your tau day

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jokes on you, I’m too dumb to get it!

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s close, but the math checks out.

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  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that makes me want to celebrate my birthday more

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d confuse the Americans.

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  • SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This… this is why we have no friends, brain:)

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